Dossier Interrupted
Our trip to Long Island could not have come at a better time. Last Friday, I met with our case worker at Bethany to drop off what I thought was a nearly completed dossier. After she had time to go through it, she sent us an e-mail with a list of problems.
It seems our agency now requires a notary’s term to be valid for at least a year from when the document was signed. Under the old rules, a notary’s commission had to be current when the dossier arrived in China, which ours would be, give past experience. It seems that Bethany has gotten some dossiers back because a notary’s term had expired before log in, so they decided to implement the one year rule. This rule went into effect after our home study was complete and after our police clearances came back. Turns out the term of the notary who signed our clearances expires at the end of November, which would run afoul of the new edict. Now, we don’t have control over who notarizes our police clearances, so naturally we were pretty upset at this turn of events.
The bottom line is we need to re-submit our police clearance forms and Bethany now requests a notary with at least a year remaining on his or her term for this document. So that’s going to delay our dossier submission for a few weeks, at least. Given the current trend in time from log in date to referral, every week counts, especially since the latest referrals from the CCAA only covered about nine log in dates, putting the average wait to over 13 months.
Needless to say, last Friday was a very frustrating day. There were a couple of other issues which are easily fixable, but do require some running around. Saturday morning, we drove up to New York though what had become tropical depression Ernesto. The pig roast had been pushed back to Sunday, which turned out to be very nice after all. Ally had such fun playing on her cousin’s new swing set she pretty much forgot about eating anything. It’s nice to be three years old and having your hardest decision be whether to navigate the monkey bars or go down the slide.
We drove back on Monday, ready to resolve our dossier problems and get it submitted as soon as possible. We haven’t explicitly discussed a sibling with Ally, but once the paperwork is finished and The Wait begins, we’ll start broaching the subject with her. The real test will come when the new addition becomes a reality and competes with Ally for her parents’ attention.
It seems our agency now requires a notary’s term to be valid for at least a year from when the document was signed. Under the old rules, a notary’s commission had to be current when the dossier arrived in China, which ours would be, give past experience. It seems that Bethany has gotten some dossiers back because a notary’s term had expired before log in, so they decided to implement the one year rule. This rule went into effect after our home study was complete and after our police clearances came back. Turns out the term of the notary who signed our clearances expires at the end of November, which would run afoul of the new edict. Now, we don’t have control over who notarizes our police clearances, so naturally we were pretty upset at this turn of events.
The bottom line is we need to re-submit our police clearance forms and Bethany now requests a notary with at least a year remaining on his or her term for this document. So that’s going to delay our dossier submission for a few weeks, at least. Given the current trend in time from log in date to referral, every week counts, especially since the latest referrals from the CCAA only covered about nine log in dates, putting the average wait to over 13 months.
Needless to say, last Friday was a very frustrating day. There were a couple of other issues which are easily fixable, but do require some running around. Saturday morning, we drove up to New York though what had become tropical depression Ernesto. The pig roast had been pushed back to Sunday, which turned out to be very nice after all. Ally had such fun playing on her cousin’s new swing set she pretty much forgot about eating anything. It’s nice to be three years old and having your hardest decision be whether to navigate the monkey bars or go down the slide.
We drove back on Monday, ready to resolve our dossier problems and get it submitted as soon as possible. We haven’t explicitly discussed a sibling with Ally, but once the paperwork is finished and The Wait begins, we’ll start broaching the subject with her. The real test will come when the new addition becomes a reality and competes with Ally for her parents’ attention.
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