Four plus three from Poland

Another hiccup in the process was the court somehow did not include Karolina's first name in the court decree.  During our court appearance two weeks ago, we had even written out the names and given them a piece of paper with the names to avoid misspellings. So we had two options, we could get a new court decree and wait ANOTHER seven days or proceed without her first name being on the documents and we correct it when we get back to the states. We decided to push forward and we will get her named changed once we get back to the states. Whew!

So they are now officially ours!!  The appeal period ended Monday so Alex was there (back in southwest Poland in Jawor) bright and early on Tuesday to pick up the official court decree in person and then went to get the new birth certificates. It is interesting that they issue NEW birth certificates naming Robyn and I as parents. So a little over four years since our journey began, we now have three new Clement children.  God is so good!!

We did just learn that Poland was already in the process of separating the kids when we asked for permission to adopt them.  It hurts my heart to think of sisters and a brother of being separated. So happy that we can all be one big family together.

I spent most of the evening working on our DS260 Visa forms.  Had to complete one for each of the kids.  Very confusing on some parts. Important that you have your Case Number and Invoice ID number for each of the children.  For some reason our Invoice ID number had not been included in our Petition Letter but thankfully it only took a couple of days to get. Other vital bits of information that you may not have handy that you will need:

• City of birth
• Providence of birth
• Address and contact information (phone and email)where the children lived before coming into your care.  Thankfully, Robyn had a business card from the orphanage that had all this information.

Next up, we start working on passports.