not quite there

Fed Ex lost the last 5 documents I was resending to my agency! The beloved Home study, which started of as $1200, then with revisions add $300, more revision $300 more and now $150 more because agency still was not happy, new agency and only HS agency have not played well together, so last Thursday picked them up and then sent to FCL overnight Saturday delivery for $85 more, plus $75 to the Secretary of WA, but worse then the money, I was done! 100% done they were sending my stuff to Russia today!! Not after review not next week T O D A Y !!!!
Well Sunday agency emailed, no HS, fed ex said oops sorry by 8 am Monday, and then at 10;05 EST they claimed to have dropped it off on the door step. 1024 agency emails me to say they did not get it and they had called Fed Ex and no one was calling them back and well, I went to my local Fed Ex store, where I go 2 plus times a week, for work, and they said oops to bad call the 800 number, well not quite good enough for me so they Asst Manager got involved and finally at 8pm EST someone calls agency to tell them the package was dropped off across the street next to the mailbox. Agency is pissed off too, it should have been there Saturday, not today, it should have been there by 8am, no, and just left across the street, is so WRONG! Now I love fed ex, they are always good to me, this is the first time I have ever had an issue with them. But this is really a big one! They told me 329pst that the driver would call me, I called them back at525pm and did not here back and then now I just called the manager at 828pm and she said she would start calling around to try to figure out why the driver did not call me back.

Almost to Russia

With any luck, by the end of the week my documents will be in Russia!

PARTY TIME!!!!!!!!!

Apostilles!!!!

Okay so I think that even the word sounds important "APOSTILLES" and for me it is the end of phase ONE! The paperwork night mere! It is not just that you have to do some 69 documents but rather getting the person, the only person, that I need to either do a letter, give me a letter, a signature or some copy of a licence! It has been a process, two times over! But I am sending taking it to the Secretary of State for apostilles in the am!!!!!!!!!!! WHEW!!!!!!!!! PARTY TIME!!!

Almost to the finish line...

Home Study is almost done!!!!!!!! Wow!! Not quite their and our HS agency has not been very user friendly!! But with a whole lot of pushing the paperwork is almost done! I am so looking forward to be waiting for Russia and not some person that I am paying a lot of money to not finish a job pre paid, that he has been sitting on since the end of May!!!!!!!!

But it is near done and all this waiting to get the paperwork done is almost done!!! It is party time and for the first time in almost a year I am out of this paper trail and off to the race for a spot at the end of the summer break!!!

I am a happy girl and I am so glad that hs guy is nearly complete!

Giant step forward!!!

Well 3 months to the day I have completed all the new documents for my new Dossier and I have a complete rewrite of the Home study! I am just waiting approval and then we are off to Russia. Okay so I have skipped one step, go to Olympia WA for Apostilles, did I mention that I have over 31 Documents that have and average of 3 copies each at $15.00 per document...no one said this was an inexpensive process! And at this point who cares! I just want my "fate" in the hands of the Russian government, and not some one here that is holding me up, now it is in someone hand elses and no longer mine!!! Now if I can just get the copies I need of my HS to bring to Olympia I will be in great shape, and my home study guy is fantastic!