1- We received Wuby's Indiana Birth Certificate paperwork in the mail today. Since we readopted, officially changed her name, and registered it with the Indiana Dept. of Health, she can get a new birth certificate from the state if it is ever lost.
2- I forgot to mention that August 15th, Wubitu's adoption was finalized. It was rather anticlimactic as basically we recieved a boring piece of paper in the mail a week later saying that our adoption is now recognized by the Indiana courts and Wuby's name is now Keziah Wubitu....now I don't know what to do about her baby book that has a whole page for the "adoption day" where you get to put a picture of the judge with the family, etc...since we didn't even have to appear in court. We celebrated her finalization and Referaversary together as a family at the Ethiopian restaurant in town on Saturday...forgot to take pictures...oh well...I will just have to get creative.
3) We received our I-171H in the mail today....we are not wanted by the FBI!!!!! oh yeah and we are now officially approved by immigration to bring another child into the country to be our daughter!
4) We received an email addressed to all waiting families in the Ethiopia program saying the wait for infants will be 12+ months for everyone. (a month ago we were told 6-9 months for and infant) I am not sure how this will effect our timeline since we are waiting for an older child (18 months to 3). I was hoping to have a referral by the end of the year but it may be longer now... I am glad that we turned in our paperwork earlier than we had originally planned (Late October) or it could be 2010 before we brought our daughter home.
2- I forgot to mention that August 15th, Wubitu's adoption was finalized. It was rather anticlimactic as basically we recieved a boring piece of paper in the mail a week later saying that our adoption is now recognized by the Indiana courts and Wuby's name is now Keziah Wubitu....now I don't know what to do about her baby book that has a whole page for the "adoption day" where you get to put a picture of the judge with the family, etc...since we didn't even have to appear in court. We celebrated her finalization and Referaversary together as a family at the Ethiopian restaurant in town on Saturday...forgot to take pictures...oh well...I will just have to get creative.
3) We received our I-171H in the mail today....we are not wanted by the FBI!!!!! oh yeah and we are now officially approved by immigration to bring another child into the country to be our daughter!
4) We received an email addressed to all waiting families in the Ethiopia program saying the wait for infants will be 12+ months for everyone. (a month ago we were told 6-9 months for and infant) I am not sure how this will effect our timeline since we are waiting for an older child (18 months to 3). I was hoping to have a referral by the end of the year but it may be longer now... I am glad that we turned in our paperwork earlier than we had originally planned (Late October) or it could be 2010 before we brought our daughter home.
1 comments:
Jenny said...
So, are we supposed to register the birth certificates with the Dept of Health, or is that done automatically? We've had Josh's for a few months, but I'm unclear if he can get a copy of it when he's older.