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.
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