Somewhere Over The Rainbow
I’m a loser for not blogging about the stuff we’ve done/have to do as part of our Post Placement process.
See, it wasnt over once AJ came home. For Korea (and some other countries) there’s a process that can take up to a year after homecoming. There’s a six month period of at least three visits from our social worker, and then a ton of paperwork. We finished our last visit on Monday night. It was not AJ’s finest hour, but our social worker was kind and said she thought things were going exceptionally well. Now that we’ve gotten our three gold stars, we wait to receive AJ’s Korean birth certificate and other important documentation along with a consent to adopt from our agency. Then, we file with our county and NC a Petition for Adoption. Once they approve that, they send us an official decree (and we are finally his legal parents!) and then we can apply for AJ’s social security number. Once we have that, we apply for Certificate of Citizenship, which will officially change AJ’s US status from immigrant to citizen. And THEN we’re done. Phew.
So, I’ve added this hoops to the time line on the right. It would be awesome if we have AJ’s social security number before we have to file for our taxes, otherwise, we cant claim him as a dependent or claim the adoption tax credit for this past year. But, with the way our timeline has fallen, its possible that this part of the process might take longer than that… we shall see.
