Authentication

Monday, we met with Cindy and she notarized our documents, application letter, employment verifications, medical reports, personal financial statement, police letters, homestudy and immigration approval. These plus our birth certificates and marriage certificate now have to go to the California Secretary of State. There they will make sure that the notary seals and county recorder seals are authentic. I called the California Secretary of State on Monday to make sure I understood the fees and due to budget cuts there isn't anyone available to answer the phone. I called my Dad, and asked if he would walk everything in if I mailed everything to him overnight. He said yes and agreed to pay the fees too. Off I went to Fed Ex. Hopefully, later today I will get a call from my Dad saying everything is authentic and mail it all back to me. Then, I will assemble my complete dossier and mail it to BAAS. They will take the same documents that the Secretary of State authenticated and take them to the SF Chinese consulate to be authenticated again. By next Friday, my dossier should be off to China.