Breaking News: Adoption Dossier en route to Colombia!

After a few late nights this past week putting all of the final touches on our adoption dossier, we received the final document that we were waiting for on Thursday. We sent two copies of our dossier to our lawyer in Bogota, one copy contains mostly copies of the documents is for her records and the other is the official dossier that will be submitted to ICBF.

The translator in Bogota is expecting our dossier this coming week and typically takes a week or so to translate the entire thing. Then our lawyer will present us to ICBF and then we are really rolling!

We can’t believe that we have actually finished all of the adoption requirements here in the US, especially since we have not had the agency doing all the paperwork for us and we have done almost everything ourselves.

What’s next you might ask? Well, now it’s time for us to:

1) Wait for any news or emergency needs for changes to our dossier

2) Begin working on our baby registry

3) Get prepared to become parents (as if that’s really possible)

We are hopeful that from this point it will only be a matter of months before we are united with our baby in Colombia, but we are also conscious that there are a lot of things outside of our control that may affect the timing. So we are trying to be optimistic about the timing but not lock our hearts around a particular month or anything.