Four days after mailing our application to AGCI, we received our dossier/home study packet.
(For the record, it’s “doss-see-air,” not “doss-see-yay.” It’s French for “very large heap of documents.”)
The next month was a true frenzy of paperwork: birth certificates, marriage certificate, tax forms, reference letters, contracts, physicals for all four of us, bank letters, employment letters, a 51-page questionnaire for each of us, insurance information, criminal checks, and finally, a letter from our vet (seriously).
And that was just for the home study.
Once all the home study documents were assembled, off to AGCI they went via FedEx. (We now have a FedEx account, if that tells you anything.)
Three visits from Barbara, our social worker, and some more waiting, and then on October 24 we became the proud parents of three copies of a notarized 12-page home study report.
Throughout this paperchase, our friend and Notary Public Extraordinnaire Tracy was incredible. Our house, her house, last minute, it didn’t matter. At last count Tracy had notarized 24 signatures for us, and we’re not done yet.
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