Dossier status

Now that we have nearly all the documents we need, this is the status of our dossier to date.

I need to get our marriage certificate and my birth certificate packaged and sent to the Maryland Secretary of State for authentication.

I am waiting for the I800a from the USCIS, and then will package all the Utah documents and walk them into the Utah Secretary of State office for authentication.

As soon as Tims birth certificate gets here, I will turn that right back around and send it to the Minnesota Secretary of State office for authentication.

I need to take a bunch of family life photos, make copies of both our passport pages, and we both need to have 3 or 4 passport sized photos taken.

Our financial statement is being notarized probably tonight.

Once all the authentications are done, we package all of it up and send it to AAI for them to get the final authentications from the United States Secretary of State, and, the Chinese consulate in Washington DC, and then it is sent to China.

Truly, the longest part of the process is almost over. Once the I800a gets here, the rest will go pretty fast. Then we just look for our little girl, and wait for PreApproval (PA) from China.