Stahlke Adoption

The Document Tunnel

I just faxed twenty pages to Wendy, our case worker, so she can amend our homestudy:

9 pages--our homestudy from Spring 2007, with corrections
1 page--Financial Statement with our assets and liabilities
1 page--Budget Summary with monthly expenses and income
2 pages--U.S. tax return (1040) for 2006
3 pages--two recent pay stubs from each of our employers
3 pages--seven brief statements of health written by our doctors
1 page--the fax cover page listing all of the above

Now I'm going to the post office to mail hard copies of all the above, to make the updated homestudy legal.

Wendy has also ordered another criminal background check with the Illinois state police for Jonathan and me. Luckily we didn't have to be fingerprinted again for the homestudy since the prints from last year had not expired. This is not to be confused with the fingerprinting we did two weeks ago, also for the Illinois state police, which generated a criminal background check for our dossier. This is also not be confused with the fingerprinting we did a year ago for the U.S. government and their criminal background check when we applied for preapproval for our future child's visa.

Wendy hopes to receive the results of our criminal background check today or Monday, and then she will finish amending the homestudy. After it is notarized, we will probably drive out to her office in Aurora to pick it up. We are also watching the mail every day for my doctor's medical form for the dossier (not to be confused with the doctor report listed above).

When the homestudy and my medical form arrive, the dossier documents will all be in hand--good thing, because Masha asked that our dossier arrive in Ukraine by the end of February!

posted by Stahlkes @ 1:03 PM