So what are we waiting for?

So with our NAC approval we found out that we were missing a required dossier document. Now this document was not on our list of 28 required documents ..... it's "new"  we were told.  But my friends using another agency have this document on their list ... frustrating since we have been waiting 6 months for the NAC approval! :(
But the adoption process goes on .. So what we need is a hard copy of our background check from the FBI.  Now we did this digitally a year ago when we did our home study,  so we know it's fine and it's written in our home study that our FBI background check is clear.  But the NAC wants the hard copy.
So we got our fingerprints done the following day we were informed we needed it. I went to our local Sheriff, we live in an unincorporated area so if we went to the local police department ... they charge us $100 .... residents .. $0!!!  NICE!!! So the sheriff charges $16.  Paul was at his office in Chicago and I found a place in the Federal building near his office that did it for $9. I filled out the applications and credit card forms on the FBI website and asked them to authenticate our documents when they send them back. And off to Fedex they went.

So now we wait ... for up to 8 weeks .... we Fedex'd it on March 13, it arrived March 14 at the FBI location in West Virginia.

After we receive it back from the FBI we need to send it to Washington DC to have it authenticated by the US State Department and the Kenya Embassy.  We did this with our 27 other documents so we will use a courier,  it's a LOT faster (7-10 days as opposed to taking 3-6 weeks if we mail it) .

We SHOULD be waiting for our referral (the information about the children we are matched with) right now ...... but that can't move forward until our FBI background check is submitted! UGH!
The waiting is hard!