My trip to Chicago on Thursday went very smoothly. After getting to the Secretary of State's office I was in and out with my authenticated documents within 15 minutes. I'm really glad that I went (rather than sending things through the mail), because there was 1 document that had been notarized incorrectly and so they would have had to send it back to me to fix if I hadn't been there. Instead, I was able to take care of it right then and there. The Haitian Consulate was about a 2 minute walk down State Street from the Sec of State, and I was in and out of there in about 5 minutes. Quick and easy! One day trip to Chicago saved us a few weeks of mail going back and forth. If only there hadn't been traffic on the Dan Ryan and parking costs weren't atrocious! :-P
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Our Adoption Timeline
- 11/2006 -- Began researching adoption
- 1/2/2007 -- Attended local adoption agency's info. session
- 2/2/2007 -- Heard that we could adopt from Haiti. Decided to move forward. Sent in application to the agency to start with Home Study
- 3/7/2007 -- Met with social worker. Began gathering papers, etc. for the dossier.
- 5/16/2007 -- Home Study Completed
- 6/15/2007 -- Dossier sent to Haiti.
- 10/26/2007 -- Received referral. Its a boy!
- 10/2007 -- Entered IBESR (#16,053)
- 5/09/2009 -- Out of IBESR
- 5/18/2009 - Out of Parquet
- 6/19/2009 - Out of Legalization (David is legally ours according to Haitian govt)
- 10/30/2009 - Exit MOI (David has Haitian passport)
- 11/12/2009 - Visa Appointment at US Embassy
- 11/13/2009 - U.S. Visa printed and in David's passport
- 11/14/2009 -- Travel to bring David home!