Monday, September 15, 2008

Referral Bound....

Sept 15....we have officially submitted our Phase One of our Dossier to Russia today. This took about 3-4 weeks securing various documentation, notarizations, birth certificates, marriage certificates, family photos and 20 hour of online education for both Dave and I.

What does this mean? We will now be placed on the referral list for a child from Russia. In the meantime, we still have more documentation to secure for our Phase Two portion of the application and are still awaiting our travel authorizations from Homeland Security. This can take 4-5 months as they take their sweet old time!!

After submittal, Dave and I celebrated with a dinner from Harrison's (this was a favorite restaurant of ours and many at Elon). Dave, ironically has a meeting in Greensboro today and picked up take out on his way home!