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just a look back almost 5 years ago to when we were doing our paper chasing. it took us about 3 months to do our paperwork, which included police background checks, fingerprinting, doctor appointment and paperwork stating we were healthy including a full blood workup, our birth certs and marriage cert., financial statements and employment letters (a total of 10-12 docs.). And of course a home study with a visit from a social worker and answering a ton of questions about us and our marriage. (since then we have done this paper chasing process an additional 4 times!!)
Then all these documents had to be notarized, thankfully we knew two notaries.
Then they all had to be state certified, this is to certify that the person who signed as a notary is actually a notary. this is where we experience a huge fiasco. we sent all our documents to get state certified and our entire package was lost. at the time they signed for a huge case of fed3x packages and didn't check that all were there. ours was not, but there was a signature so we had no recourse (they have since change this process due to our loss). We had to do ALL our paperwork AGAIN while living in a different state! We did all our paperwork in about 14 days this time, a miracle! Then, Fed3x temporarily lost our paperwork again while we were living in New Jersey and placed our package in the wrong apartment. we did finally find our state certified paperwork package.
Then we had to get our documents authenticated. we sent all docs to the Chinese consulate, this was a very expensive process, and i really don't even know exactly why this was needed but it made the docs look really official. But this was the final step to finishing our dossier and we sent it all off to our agency which sent it to china and our official date that our paper work was logged into the china office was may 19th 2006.
Here is a picture of us right around the time we were starting the process.
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