November 4th, 2009

We continue to gather paperwork. Adoption is kind of like a race...a race where you have to get certain paperwork completed by a certain date. The amount of paperwork is mind boggling. The amount of duplicate paperwork is even more so. And remember from one of the earlier posts, this is the FAST TRACK simplified Hague adoption...here is Rani's original post from this date:

So far this doesn’t apply in the literal ‘fly half way around the world’ sense - but hopefully it will soon!

For now, I post this because I have found myself once again online reading through things I otherwise never would have thought of doing. For this adoption paperwork process, we each have to get fingerprinted three seperate times. Today’s search was for how to request an FBI background check on…yourself! It isn’t that hard, actually. You just have to get yourself fingerprinted, and then send in your fingerprints to the FBI and ask them to check, see if you have a criminal record on file with them. It seems like it should be harder, but it’s not. I’ve added a link to their webpage, complete with instructions, as well as PDFs of the request letter to them and even a fingerprint card, in case your local police department doesn’t have the cards any more (many have gone to electronic, rather than ink and paper, fingerprints).