Disembowelled, Disempowered of Attorney

November 29, 2006 at 11:39 pm | Posted in AdoptThis! | 7 Comments

This one’s for Andrea, who asked: Did our Power of Attorney (lets the attorney in Guatemala act on our behalf in Guatebaby’s adoption) come back from being authenticated at the Consulate today? Since I couldn’t find your email address, and since it is a classic story in the poor-me genre, and I’m always a sucker for sympathy, I’ll give you your answer here, Andrea.

Why, yes, yes the POA did arrive today. Unfortunately, the County Clerk’s name on the authentication read D——- instead of V——-. I immediately called and emailed our agency (not home), asked for advice from half a dozen people, all of whom gave conflicting advice, and eventually decided to go ahead and FedEx the documents (hello $$$) to Guatemala with the expectation that we would redo them before we hit PGN.

I got hopelessly lost looking for the FedEx HQ, which is located in one of those scary semi-industrial zones near the airport that seem like they’d be a great place to leave a body if you didn’t want it to be found, ever. My gas light came on and stayed on, but I was terrified that if I stopped for gas, I wouldn’t get to FedEx before they closed. I made it in the bare, we-were-about-to-lock-up nick of time, and was patting myself on the back because if I had mailed the documents tomorrow morning they wouldn’t get to Guatemala until Monday. Only to get home and discover an email from the coordinator, saying, no, no – don’t mail them.

Did you know you can call FedEx and they’ll return documents to you? I didn’t. Now I do.

Sigh.

ETA: Apparently you can ask FedEx to return documents to you. This does not insure that said documents, will, in fact, be returned to you. Sigh squared.