Approved!!!!!!

We just heard yesterday that our dossier was accepted by the Catholic Center and that we should expect our "official" referral for Luka in the next few weeks and to travel in June!  I am told that I should be back home with Luka by the end of July. The agency told us that the Catholic Center made a very quick decision and that referrals from Poland are usually inches thick with medical records and other information.  We can't wait to see all of it.   Of course, I really feel secure when we get the referral so that makes it all the more important, as well.

I would have posted sooner but I have been busy re-researching craniofacial teams (had to find all my info from a few months ago) calling to schedule consultations for early August and being just plain airheaded from the good news.

As excited as I am, it is always my nature to be guarded and have one eye watching for the "other shoe to fall".  I'm still tense but it feels so good to be moving along.

I800A Approved and Dossier on its Way to Poland!

On Friday, I called the USCIS and was told our I800a had been approved the day before (March 8)!  We received the Approval letter in the mail on Monday, March 12.  That afternoon I took it to the state capitol to be authenticated, added it to the stack of documents known as our Dossier and sent it via Fedex to our agency.

I am happy to report that our worker at the agency emailed today to say that she had just received our Dossier and that she was sending it back out with Fedex today to Poland!

Here is a photograph of all of the documents we were required to gather from various states, agencies, departments, etc., ie., this is the Dossier (minus the Approval letter which I had not authenticated yet).  The page on top of each of the 30 documents bares the $10 gold apostille (authentication) seal.  An apostille is the State's authentication of the notary's signature.  So each document is notarized and apostilled.

Now, to count down the days to completion of translation and submission to the Polish government!