Authentications (UGHHH)

Our approval from the US department of immigration arrived on Saturday, December 26th. That completed all of our documents, or our dossier as it is called. Every document was already notarized. At that point everything (13 documents) had to be authenticated by the NC Secretary of State. You can mail these in (takes about 5 days total) or you can drive them to Raleigh, drop them off by 10am and pick them up by after 4:30. Because of time, we chose to drive them to Raleigh. Thankfully my sister was able to ride with me to Raleigh on Monday, December 28th. Everything went great until we found out 2 of our documents (our police background checks) were not authenticated because the person who signed them had not signed their full-name legibly. Sooooooo frustrating. Kirk was at my parents' house so he called the court house in our county, explained the situation, had them re-do the the reports, asked his secretary to pick them up and put them in our mailbox, and then Kirk drove them back to Raleigh on Tuesday, December 29th!!! He then overnighted them to our courier in DC who delivered them to US Department of State, had them authenticated by them, and then drove them to the Chinese Embassy. The courier will pick the documents up on Tuesday and overnight them to us the same day. We will then overnight them to our adoption agency in Charleston. Hopefully, they will be OK and then will be on their way to China!!!!!