Remember the birth certificate saga with Anna Zane's birth certificate?
Well, it appears the drama is not over.
A few weeks back we applied for a passport for Anna. We received a response today. Because she was born in the car on the way to the hospital, she is considered to have a non-institutional birth. Thus, we have to provide several original documents supporting her birth. For adoptive families, original documents are difficult to come by, but we are thankful we have three. So we are hoping this is sufficient.
However, thanks to our time in the trenches with the state government during the birth certificate process, we are concerned about the hiccups the adoption details will bring in the passport process. Mainly, our original documents from the day of her birth all list her given name at birth which is not her legal name. We changed it when we adopted her.
We plan to overnight these documents, and have asked our adoption agency to write an official letter about her adoption and any original documents they may have supporting our claim. We have 90 days to work this out.
Prayers please.
1 comment:
I have had issues with passports and visas and have always been able to work them out without much of a problem (including a name change). Hopefully, that is an indication that those agencies are not as silly as the others you have worked with so far.
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