I know it doesn´t sound like the most inspiring setting but this is my new me... and so I´ll blog covered in baby stuff. :) Besides, it´s not even that bad... it´s just another me!
Since the last time I wrote it´s been very busy. Process over here is really complicated because nothing is standardized and it seems that each judge and each registry is different. I'll sumarize for the sake of information and I'll throw in some baby pictures to make it fun. Documentation talk can be really dry...
The "sentencia" or adoption order: It took two and a half weeks to get our adoption order starting the day the complete set of documents got to the judge´s office. This happened last Monday March 14th. That´s exactly one month after the integration meeting. We got lucky we have a family friend who knew the judge and asked her to speed up the process. We heard later that it is normally taking longer than 2 weeks.
The new birth certificate: On Tuesday the 15th my brother traveled to Sebastian´s town where he spend the full day getting a new birth certificate for him. He had to wait for I don´t know how long and we kept e-mailing him documents that were required at the last minute. Seriously... it´s like you are never ready because they can ask for anything. The good news is that by 4:30 pm he had Sebastian David Cristancho Jaimes´ birth certificate in his hands... 10 copies of it (just in case!!!). He mailed everthing the same day. (Yayyy for uncle Felix!)
Sebastian's Colombian Passport: Wednesday the 16th we picked up the documents at the mail office. We already had Sebastian´s passport pictures taken so we quickly got to the passport office to get that done. I have to say that was the easiest step of all because once again, we dad's friend works there. The lady was super helpful and by noon we had the passport in our hands. (Yay for abuelito Felix!)
That same evening, Tavo took his plane to Bogota to spend two days with his mom and brother and to deliver the "complete" set of documents to the Canadian Embassy.
Canadian Visa: Thursday the 17th Tavo called the Canadian Embassy to make sure he had everything required for Sebastian´s visa, and sure enough, we had a missing document! I went to my lawyer and nobody seemed to know how to get this letter. Of course I was on panic by then...again. How can neither my lawyer or the regional ICBF office know how to get that letter! But Tavo came to the rescue when he talked to someone at the main ICBF office today who was able to provide the letter. So finally, we have everything! Uff... Yayyy for daddy!
Next tuesday (monday is a holiday here in Colombia) Abuelita Marina, Tavo's mom, will be delivering the docs to the Embassy and hopefully before two weeks we´ll have the visa. :)
Yes, this is been a full family effort.
Nothing seem to be easy regarding documents in international adoption!!
The good thing is Sebastian is so so so much worth the effort! Every day he seems to come up with different ways to be cute... he´s starting to say "agua" which in english means water. It seems to me that´s a perfect first word... since he likes it so much! He´s also already looking for us when we leave the room for whatever reason and he comes to me when "in trouble" which is a definite sign of attachment.
I got to run but I will definetely tell you later about our trip to my family´s acreage... what an adventure!
Until next post,
LuzM.
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