Friday, June 14, 2013

Order Is In....Waiting on Certificate.

It's been two weeks since our final hearing. I emailed our lawyer to check on the status of our case. Apparently we received our Adoption Order within three days (wow!) and are still waiting on the Adoption Certificate. When we get those two things, I fill out a form called Article 23 Form and take all these things down to the NAC Secretariat:

Certified copies of:
1.      Adoption Order.
2.      Adoption Certificate.
and
3.      Approval letter from the receiving state authorising that the adoption may proceed.
4.      Individual approval certificate from the Adoption Committee.
5.      Freeing certificate of the child.
6.      Duly filled Request form (Form 23) by adoptive parents.
7.      Copies of passports of the adoptive parents.

Then the NAC will issue me our Article 23 Conformity Certificate aka COC.

Little Angels will release Zac's original birth certificate to me once they see all that above.
Then with those documents I can get Zac's Kenyan passport. That will take a couple of weeks (I think).
When I get his passport, then we can go to the US Embassy (with all the above documents) and get a Visa put into his passport. And then that's THE END.

1 comment:

  1. You should be able to get his passport in three days but it costs "a little" extra - many adoption families pay somebody to get it for them - I think it is because they are tired of running from office to office :-)

    Good luck with the last steps we have been here for two months now and have a long road to go yet but we are here and that is what is important

    Good luck with the last steps xxx

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