Trip to Indy

Yesterday I picked up the final revised papers and took the whole bundle down to Indianapolis to get apostilles for them. Apostilles are the legalization that allows the documents to be used internationally.
There ended up being 15 documents in my pack of revised papers that needed apostilles - the cut-off number for how many documents you can walk through the office at the Secretary of State in Indy. One of the additional papers we needed to have redone was Stan's state police clearance. It listed him as "female!" The facilitator in Ukraine caught the typo and the state police had a corrected document in our hands in about 3 days.
After getting the seals placed, I popped the documents in the mail to our agency in Pennsylvania. They should be arriving tomorrow. We are feeling the time crunch now as our papers will start to out date at the beginning of July. If there aren't any more hold-ups, we may be submitting the documents to the government in Ukraine in 3-4 weeks. Pray that there won't be any more surprises on our paperwork.
When we were living overseas, there were a handful of people who made this mad dash to Indy for us when we couldn't do it ourselves. As I was driving down and back, I was thanking God for friends and family who stepped in to give us a hand. Thanks, everyone of you who have helped out in one way or another. We appreciate all you've done to help.

Paperwork in Ukraine

We watched the Fedex tracking site this past week as our bundle of paperwork traveled to Ukraine. It arrived on May 5th and on May 6th we got an email listing all the paperwork that needs to be re-worked. We need to revise about 8 documents including the home study and the physicals. I'm glad for an unexpected vacation day today (the doctor I work with is on his annual birding retreat) so I can crank through some of this paperwork.
It's frustrating to have to repeat some of this work, but it is also encouraging to have such prompt attention to our paperwork by both the Ukrainian facilitator and our agency. We hope that means we are near a real submission date for our dossier. Please pray that we will be able to satisfy every detail they are asking for and that we'll be able to turn around these new documents quickly.