. . . Gabriela's adoption papers passed through the Haitian courts making us all officially adopted late February 2008. We have a few more steps and we need your prayers BIGTIME for this next week before we come on tour!!!
Here are the steps to adopting Gabriela
(when you see one of these: - that's where we are right now)
• Gabriela comes home (July 20, 2006)
• we find and meet our lawyer, Jean-Baptist MEME
• vaccinations
• complete our dossier
• Matt’s fingerprints for some reason had to take several trips to Canada and back
• social services
• Parquet
• letter proving OUR sterility (well actually, MINE, b/c the Haitian government is confident
that no man would ever be sterile)
• Tribunal
• Etat Civil
• decide on Gabriela’s new last name ; )
• Parquet
• Archives
• submit citizenship application with Canadian Embassy
- Haitian Immigration
- Interior
- Immigration again
- Haitian Passport
- Visitor’s Visa to Canada
thank you for your prayers...tour dates coming next!
G E M
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