A Brief Little Update

Well, nothing real different but I wanted to post a small update. We finally got our batch of documents back from the Secretary of the Commonwealth. Unfortunately the marriage certificates we got form the county were not done exactly correct, so I need to get them fixed or re-done. Not a big deal, though. We also found out that (or I had missed it in the list of docs for the dossier) that we are waiting on a few things to come back from the agency that will also need to be notarized/apostilled/copied before sending the final dossier back to the agency.

That means that the new versions of the marriage certificates can go along with the second batch of papers to get authenticated. This won't really slow us down, no worries here.

We watched a presentation from the agency about the travel portion of the process, although it did get some into the referral. There were some very interesting things to find out about cultural differences between here and Russia, along with lots of good tips on what to bring or how to act or dress. It will definitely be a case of acting like the locals when we go.

Hopefully we will get the docs from the agency soon and then we can get to the Secretary of the Commonwealth again.

One other thing that I finished up was the batch of pictures to send off. We needed pics of various rooms in the house, front/back of the house, schools, church, etc. so you can get an idea of where the children will be growing up. I put together a nice little packet with each page having 2 pictures neatly taped (with the tape hidden behind the picture, good gift wrapping trick) and captions for each. I felt like I was in school again working on a project. I was going to put on a cover page, but I felt it was enough. Now that we were delayed some I might end up putting one on, but I don't want to go overboard.

Hopefully another update soon.