Sadie (my faithful traveling partner) and I hand carried the home study, police clearances, financial statement, physician forms, and adoption petition to the Secretary of State's office in Columbia, SC for certification.It was a nice ride but took about 5 hours round trip. If I lived closer I wouldn't mind being a courier, but that is a long way to drive. We looked on-line and didn't find any couriers in Columbia. At this point after having one package lost in UPS land I felt better taking all these things myself than mailing them to the Secretary of States Office. I was in and out in 30 minutes and would have been out sooner but I met another lady adopting from Russia, so sat and talked to her for awhile.
She and her husband went to Russia around Thanksgiving for the court date to adopt their daughter and bring her back to the US. All the paper work gets reviewed on so many levels before ever reaching the foreign country, but unbelievably someone missed that her maiden name was used as her middle name on one of the US govt. documents. The judge of all people caught the error and said, "No baby going home with you". They had to fly back to the US and get the document corrected and are leaving this week to go to Russia again, which meant new fingerprints (their's had expired), new VISA's and a lot of grief.
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