A little slice of Russia, Right Here

Take 1:
We have been making last minute preparations to travel to Russia to pick up our two boys. We have several pieces of our dossier that are set to expire within days of our court date. So we decided to renew them just in case something happened in Volgograd where our court date was delayed enough to invalidate the pieces.

We when through the gyrations of signature, notarization, and apostille. Later our local home-study agency told us that Colorado had removed the $2 / document fee for overnight apostilles. Beth returned to pick up the paper and questioned if we could be refunded the fee for the apostille because of the policy change.

The response was that they had indeed changed the policy but as of the 8th of Nov it was suspended until the 21st of Nov because the computer system was not working with the change and could not be updated until then.

Policy change held up because of technology.

Take 2:
Beth's mom called her at work and said that there was a problem with the last copy of our marriage certificate. It seems that the Sec. of State in Raleigh had no record of receiving or sending the certificate to us.

She was on her way to Raleigh to get another copy apostilled and later she Fedex the copy to us. The next morning Beth received the Fedexed license and that afternoon we received the mailed copy that the Sec. of State had no record of sending...