so upset

After 3 months of collecting and running all over the city and waiting in wait rooms to talk to the right person and mailing in requests and paying money to get certain forms and arranging a sub for the past 3 days to get everything certified downtown, I finally turned the dossier in yesterday. Just got an email. NINE items need to be redone. The main reason-- LEARN THIS NOW-- the date you have on every form, every place you sign, must MATCH the date of the notary. Like when you write a letter, don't date it at the top. Just add a blank next to the signature of the letter and make sure you don't sign it/date it, until you are in front of the notary.

The other thing that got me-- my main notary, I checked that she was registered with the state and her commission doesn't expire until 2012. However, her stamp was "non-compliant" with the Sec. of State. They have to have a circle or a square around their name and "notary" and their "My commission expires on date" has to be outside that circle or square. My notary had no square. So all of her documents need to be redone. UGH. Sadness.

You take three steps forward, one step back. Now to move forward.

hmmmm

I was so excited today as I went to school...driving to school is funny because I live across the street. However, I knew that I was to return to the Sec of the State this morning to pick up my COMPLETED dossier. And if I don't move my car in the AM, then my contractor parks behind me and it's an issue. Anyhoo, I was so excited as I waited for my off period. Then I got a call. Sadly they told me that one of the documents could not be certified at all because it was a copy--that's the one IAN gave me, so that made me sad. And that 7 others couldn't be certified because the notary wasn't "compliant." I was immediately sad and deflated. I was ready to drive the whole thing to my agency today--got a sub for my 5th period so I could go do it. And now... another step back. When I got there, I realized it was my school notary was non-compliant because she didn't have a box around her name in the stamp. It was so silly and odd. But stopped my process. I asked if I could go to the Wells Fargo in the basement of the building and re-notarize the same pages. They didn't know, but that's what I ended up doing. The Wells Fargo notary was very nice and re-notarized my bad documents. And I called IAN and they are sending the original homestudy to the Sec. of State themselves and it will come back in 2 days-- so all hope is not lost! I will probably be able to STILL be done with this by Friday!!! :) I brought the new documents back to the Sec of State worried because I thought I'd have to leave them overnight again. But this woman took pity on me and rushed them for free and gave them to me. Along with her card to send her a photo of my baby! :) Yea!