Ok....so I am sure you all saw the dossier paperwork picture where it was laid out on the floor!!! The process goes that you take 3/4 of that paperwork and get it to the IL Secretary of State office in Springfield and get it with the state seal, then once you have the state seal you get it to the China Consulate in Chicago to get authenticated. Once that stuff is done then it is ready to go to China. We chose to send our stuff to a courier and let her take it to springfield and Chicago. After talking to her, she suggested that we go ahead and send all of the paperwork that we have (we are still waiting for the immigration approval which is backed up and taking longer than expected) so that if there is a problem with any of these documents we will have time to fix them while we are waiting for the immigration paperwork!! The immigration approval will also need to go thru this process but once this round is done the stress level goes WAY down!!!!! So...today I mailed off the paperwork that I had to the courier and I should know in a couple weeks if all is well or if there are things I need to fix or redo......so this is where the prayers come in!!! If you could all be in prayer that this paperwork is right and that the Consulate finds no problems with it that would be great!!!
I did speak to the Homeland Security office that is in charge of our immigration approval and they said that right now they are running 60-75 days even though it use to only be 2-3 weeks. SO we could be waiting thru December for that paper still. I am praying that we get that approval early December so that we can move on to the next step but either way at least I got this paperwork in the mail today so I will have a little less stress!!! As soon as we get immigration approval and send it to the Sec of State and Consulate and as long as the other stuff I just sent is fine...we will be ready to send our Dossier to China!!!!! It seems there is an end in sight to the paperwork (at least this paperwork).
Prayers are appreciated!!!!
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