Starfish Dreams

$1,000 later . . .

14:19, Friday, December 28, 2007 .. Posted in Family doings .. 1 comments .. Link

All the kids (except the newest one) now either have a passport or have applied for one. We trooped over to the post office (after making an appointment) with 13 kids, 12 of whom needed passports. It took us an hour and a half and as I said, about $1000. Only a couple of the kids were born in the US - they were really easy. The others weren't hard, necessarily, but involve more paperwork. I had already trooped all the kids to Costco and taken pictures a few weeks ago. Then, I filled out all their application forms online and printed them off, then I created folders and filled each one with all of the necessary paperwork. Lots of work before we even got to the counter. :) Both Starfish Daddy and I had to be there because of security concerns about international kidnapping, so we had to find a time when we could both go! All the kids had to go too and at least "be seen", since they were not old enough to sign their own adoption applications.

We submitted US adoption paperwork, but they didn't want to take the foreign stuff. I think that's probably a mistake on their part, but hey - we'll see! If they need more information, they'll contact us . . .

They told us to expect passports back in 4-6 weeks "officially", but said it's been taking as little as two weeks recently. We are doing it now, as I anticipated 4-6 months, with the backlog they've had.

I can't tell you what a relief it is to get them off! I swear Satan did not want us doing this and tried to stop us in a myriad of ways, but we did it. All kids are US citizens and now they'll have proof! Of course, I'm still hoping we'll need 'em to move. . . . .
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16:16, Friday, December 28, 2007 .. Posted by blessedmomof10
Hi ~

What are you plans for moving to Africa? Anything in the works..... just yesterday on ruralrealestate.com there was listing for homes in Zambia......... :)

Keep us posted,
gloria

Edited by starfishmama on Friday, December 28, 2007 at 17:17

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