Our formal adoption Gladney application has been submitted! So, that group of paperwork is done. They have a rule that a child being placed in a home must be at least 6 months younger than the youngest in the house. So, we will be matched with a girl that is 0-18 months at the time of referral. She will be older than that when she gets home. Now we are starting work on the application for Maine Children's Home (MCH). We need many of the same documents for them as we did for Gladney so at least we have most of that ready to go. The biggest part of MCH's is an autobiography. We each have to complete an 18 page questionnaire about ourselves, family, finances, our marriage, education among other things. Once this is done, we can begin the homestudy process with our caseworker. Another application we need to do is fingerprinting. We will need fill one out so we go to our local police station, get fingerprinted and then they get sent to the FBI. I believe it takes about a month to get the results.
We will be working with a woman who get our dossier ready, so she will get and format everything, send it to us to be signed and notarized and keep everything organized. Using this service should prevent errors and hopefully get this done with more quickly than if we had to do it ourselves, which would take 4-6 months! Once the dossier is done, it gets sent to Honduras, translated and reviewed by many different officials down there. This process will probably take at least 6 months, so we really want to get the dossier ready as quickly as possible.
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