Monday, March 13, 2006
5:08 PM
BCIS called (yes, we have been able to get their number and have been communicating with them via phone for a while) and let us know our 171 is on the way! Yay!
We were very worried because of Tom's name change. He changed his last name to mine when we married and when they received our application, they called us to request more information on the name change. Tom spent most of last week on the phone with them, trying to figure out if we needed to go to court or if the name change was legal. We were the first couple to go through that office with that specific situation, so they pulled our file and started working on it. They had no idea what tneeded to be done, and what was legal in that situation.
I guess they found out from the state that it WAS legal for a man to change his name when marrying (without needing to go to court) and processed our application. I guess sometimes being a little different is a good thing :) This makes the whole wait-for-referral much easier.
Well, maybe not MUCH. But the 171 is a gift, for sure. Now we'll have everything we need for the adoption, except Cupcake.
