After trekking to the Registrar's Office for two days in a row, I am happy to announce my husband was able to get the Adoption Certificate. Once he had it in hand, he met a person from our lawyer's office who had all our COC docs together. They walked over to the NAC and filed our application for the Article 23 Certificate of Completion. What a relief. It was a very, very stressful few days. Our i800/i800a expire on July 25, so we went round and round with USCIS and State Dept trying to figure out WHAT needs to happen before the expiration. Do we need to be back in the US by July 25? Does Zac need his US visa in his passport by then? Or what? We still don't have a clear answer, so we are playing it safe. We changed our flights to July 24 and will leave the country just in case!! Provided, of course, that we get everything else in order. The COC is supposed to take 7 working days, then we can apply for his passport (which will take a few days), then the US visa takes hopefully just one day.
I was so happy and so stress-free today that I literally danced in the produce market with my daughter today when we were shopping. Some Phil Collins song came on and I picked her up and twirled her around and spun her around. It was so much fun. Folks looked at us like we were crazy but I didn't care. It was nice to be carefree and not having this STRESS on top of me for one day. Needed it. Badly.
