I *almost* cried at the Secretary of State's office this morning. I mean I was thisclose. We took everything that needed to be apostilled to the Secretary of State and she was looking through it and handed us back a paper. Tim's employment letter had to be sent by headquarters, which is in Minneapolis. So of course it was notarized there as well. I mean duh, we know that whatever state the letter was notarized in it had to apostilled in, but we just didn't even think about it. It came from Tim's work and that's all we thought about. So, we had an appointment this afternoon to turn all of our dossier paperwork in and to be so, so close and having that happen, well yeah, I got pretty upset.
My main concern is that some states can take a really long time to apostille documents. We've heard California can take MONTHS. So I called up the Minnesota Secretary of State and was relieved when I was told that it's only a few days turn around. So we overnighted our letter and they should get it tomorrow - so hopefully, we'll have that letter in our hands next week.
Luckily our local agency let us go ahead and send everything to the main agency branch so they could start getting that all together for us there. So when we get that letter, we are going to get it to them quickly so our dossier can be sent down to Colombia as soon as possible for translation.
We really know that this is not a big roadblock at all, we consider ourselves very lucky that this has been our only hangup so far. The adoption process is full of potential hangups and pitfalls and things have went very smoothly for us so far.
