Good news first, we were able to visit our kids at the end of June and had a great time! We played in the pool at our hotel, did some activities around Hermosillo and spent time bonding in our room doing crafts, reading books and learning English. The kids are awesome and only bummed when we leave and we understand because we are bummed too. The hopeful news is that everyone in Unacari says our adoption is moving along quickly and we hope it keeps moving so we can get these kids home!
Now on to the endless bureaucracy that is International Adoption – the land of a thousand visas. Ok, we exaggerate, but when you hear the many steps to getting the adoption visa, it seems like a thousand steps for a number of visas:
1. We filed for specific US immigration visas for each child with USCIS
2. They sent us back a provisional approval, this of course came in the mail while we were in Mexico a few weeks ago, but we were happy to see it when we returned.
3. While in Mexico we picked up original copies of Articles 16 and 17, these are documents that were needed to begin the whole adoption process in Mexico.
4. We then took the USCIS form, the copies of Article 16 & 17 and another form we had to fill out, along with a new set of passport photos and went to the Mexican Consulate in Los Angeles to file an Adoption Visa. After a few hours there, we were told we had to make an appointment and come back later in the week.
5. We went back to the Mexican Consulate again after setting up an appointment and after two hours, we got our visa. Hooray!
The visa is a actually included inside our passport and we took additional photos
6. We now head back to Mexico with our lawyer to file some other visa with the approved visa we just got. Or something like that, we aren’t clear, but we have to do it. So we’ll drive to Tucson, pick up our lawyer, drive with him to Nogales and get the next thing checked off.
Then the entire Mexican Government goes on vacation for the end of July for two weeks, lucky them. And then we all wait. Wait for some other paperwork from USCIS to make it’s way through the National DIF and then back to the State of Sonora where our kids are located. Then from there we wait for a court date to be set in Sonora for our adoption to be finalized.
While we wait, we’ve been working on the kids room, we figured out a space saving set up for the closet in their room and put it all together, thanks to the Container Store, Elfa rules!
And our nopales are growing like always and we hope to have more good news as the weeks go on!
Moving right along. I’m eager to see the family together, in person.
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