We got the letters from the doctor supporting the birth date change yesterday, made it to the notary yesterday afternoon to sign the petitions, and I ran them plus all of the Ethiopian court document photocopies and copies of the birth certificates from Ethiopia to the court house this morning! Hurray!!! It’s a great feeling to have that ball out of my court. 🙂 Now we wait…
The law in Virginia says that the clerk of courts has to send all of the petitions received in the previous month by the 10th of the next month. So our petitions will go forward from there no later than March 10th. The clerk sends copies to various places, one of which is our social worker’s agency. Our social worker then has 60 days to send them her in-depth post-placement report. She told me to give her a heads-up when I filed (which I did) so she could start getting things together, so hopefully it won’t take the full 60 days. (She indicated that she didn’t expect it to.) Once the court gets her report, then we’ll be assigned a court date. So really it could take anywhere from a few weeks to a few months.
But in the meantime, I got a bunch of home study update forms by email this morning that I’ll need to take care of. *sigh* Off to fill out more paperwork!
Side note: If our petitions go through, I’ll post them in some form here so that others in Virginia can have something to use as a sort of template. It was hard to find directions for writing them!