We just came back from court where a judge issued the Final Degree of Adoption. We only did this so we could get an Alaskan birth certificate. It would have been difficult to try and register her in school or girl scouts or whatever with her Chinese birth certificate even though it is translated. So after a ridiculous amount of paperwork, money and idiocy (on the clerks part) we finally went to court today and she is now an official Alaskan.
This marks the end of 5 years of paperwork, red tape, bureaucracy and hemorrhaging money. It feels like there should be a choir of angels singing!
