Just our luck. There's a new law (about 1 year old but just recently being implemented and randomly, at best) on the books stating that before our adoption can be finalized, we have to be fingerprinted and have another background check. Let's see, for Turner's adoption alone, we were fingerprinted at the local police station and those fingerprints were run through the FBI system. While at the local police station, we had a background check run via their system. Then, we had to be electronically fingerprinted with Homeland Security and have them run a security check on us prior to being given permission to bring a child into this country. Now, we have to have our fingerprints re-done and run one more time. So, that's what we did, as we didn't have another choice.
Today, Randy took off half a day from work. We had our 3 month post-placement visit. Come to find out, our home study agency(different from our adoption agency) is going out of business so this is the only visit our social worker will be doing. They are transitioning our case to another agency and someone new will do our next visit at 6 months. If you were following our last adoption, the adoption agency went out of business during the adoption process. They did finish all open cases though. I'm not saying we're the kiss of death to agencies but it would seem we tend to bring bad luck to the agencies we work with. Hopefully, our adoption agency can withstand the threat of having us as clients.
After the post-placement visit, we headed to the court house to get finger print cards. Then over to the police station of more prints. WITH ALL 4 KIDS! Exciting, no. Then, back to the court house to drop off the cards to be forwarded to the proper agency for evaluation.
After that, we thought, hey let's check and see if there is anyone at the local polling place so we can vote early. Just a few someones. A line out the building, into the parking lot and winding its way amongst the cars. Needless to say, we didn't get to vote today. Hopefully, it won't be that long on election day. I have to say, it's quite exciting that this many people are getting out to vote. I think that's wonderful!
So, long story short, we think we've jumped through the last hoops in order to finalize Turner's adoption. Time will tell.
Come On Over
17 years ago
2 comments:
Hi Jan, I hope all the readoption stuff works out fine for you. Too bad about the extra fingerprints. Our whole family is starting to feel like a pack of criminals!
about the large family thing--people do tend to comment a lot when they are all young--it's kind of like "how can you do that?!" But when they are all older you just look like a gang of people!
We don't get many comments now, but I do look at mom's like you with so many little ones and think "how do they do it?!" Then I think, hmm, how did I do it? HAVE FUN! Debbie
Congratulations!! Too bad about all the extra stuff...
Good luck voting. In Nashville we had record turn outs for early voting - over 50% is what I saw. The polling places shouldn't be so bad on election day.
Lori
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