Birth Certificates Are Here!

Our Birth Certificates from NYS came. They were expensive. Cost us over $50 each to get one delivered. Our marriage license here in Georgia only cost us 5 bucks.

Besides getting the documents that you need (see previous post), you have get each document notarized by a notary. Then go to the county where the notary is registered and get the documents certified by the county that the notary is indeed a notary in the county. Then you go to the state and get the document sealed with the state seal which basically states that the county does exist in the the state. Then you send these documents to the Chinese Consulate to get authenticated by the Chinese Government. Phew.....

Since our documents are from both NY (birth certificates) and Georgia (everything else), I have to send our NY documents to the NYS to get certified and the Georgia documents to the State of Georgia to get certified. Then NY documents go to the Chinese Consulate in NY and GA documents go to the Chinese Consulate in Houston which covers that state of Georgia. Birth certificates don't need to be notarized so today I sent them off to NY State for the Seal!

Hope this all makes sense. We have our first homestudy appt on Thursday. This is probably one of 4. I have a physical on Friday. I hate going to the doctors so please say an extra prayer that things go well.

Jen