June 1, 2007

My paperwork has been received by the adoption agency from the Guatemalan Consulate. I am so fortunate that the Houston Consulate is the office I have to use because not all offices are that quick. The same is true for the Texas Secretary of State.
Now my dossier goes to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs for them to "verify" all the authenticated documents. This process will take 7-10 days, once they receive the forms.
At the same time, authorization for the DNA testing should be given in the next 10 days or so. Once authorization is given, the DNA testing is done sometime in the next 30 days and then it will take a few weeks to get the results. Of course all these time lines are only estimates it could be longer or short time frames. I, of course, am praying for shorter times. :-)