Today our adoption coordinator informed us we will have to get our homestudy update authenticated. In plain English, our homestudy (our life story in one huge notarized and authenticated document) was updated with new salary, job, and tax information. The updated page was notarized by some guys at the UPS store down the street. Now we have to take that notarized document to Trenton to get a stamp certifying that the notary we used is legit. Then we take that stamped document to the Vietnamese consulate in Washington DC for them to stamp it certifying that they recognize the state stamp as legit. Then it gets sent back over to Vietnam. If our adoption agency got anything notarized in PA, we'll have to repeat this process with a trip to Harrisburg before going to the consulate in DC. Last time when we got things authenticated at the Vietnamese consulate, one of the pages got stuck in their photocopier. It came back all crumbled up and taped together, but at least it was stamped!
Tuesday, February 26, 2008
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Update: we will have to go to Harrisburg, but not Trenton. At least we don't have to do both. Harrisburg does it while you wait, while Trenton makes you drop it off and come back the next day. I think we will hire a courrier to drive the paperwork down to the Vietnamese consulate in DC. There are people that specialize in this and charge about $50/document plus travel fees.
congrats u two. Josh
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