Five Reasons to Re-Adopt in the U.S.
No matter what kind of visa your child enters the U.S. on (an IR-3 or an IR-4) he/she will benefit if you re-adopt them in your home state. Since the Child Citizenship Act of 2000 an IR-3 visa means that a child is automatically a U.S. citizen upon entrance to the country (so make sure you cheer as soon as those plane wheels touch ground!).
There are five great reasons to re-adopt your child.
1. A Legal and Binding Birth Certificate
Nervous
Our representative is supposed to be picking up Gus’s birth certificate today. If it is ready he will be traveling tomorrow to Gus’s hometown to have it authenticated and then be requesting Gus’s final DNA test.
You all know what that means, right?
My heart is beating so fast right now that I can’t catch a breath. I’m nervous and anxious and deliriously happy all at the same time. And there is no way that I can even start to make this post poetic or descriptive because words just can’t form in my brain…my heart has it too jumbled.
I have not written …read more
Disappointment
November 24th was supposed to be a day of celebration in our house; it was to be the day our lawyer picked up Gus’s completed birth certificate. Instead, he refiled the birth certificate because there was an error.
It’s an error that has set us back another two weeks or so. An error on a piece of paper that has given us more time to prepare for his arrival and more time to dream about him. It has given him more time with his foster family and more time in Guatemala.
But, he is just beginning to walk and I sure don’t …read more
What Time He was Born (and POA)
I have been notified that our Power of Attorney was officially registered in Guatemala (on the 28th…just under the gun), that they have completed blood testing (poor thing!), and I received a copy of his birth certificate just the other day (which states where he was born and what time).
And I remember, once again, that I still don’t know what time AJ was born.
Whew…that is a lot to download.
Now if I could only wrap my arms around the little man again. I think I will have to hug AJ just a tad tighter tonight.
