Disembowelled, Disempowered of Attorney
November 29, 2006 at 11:39 pm | Posted in AdoptThis! | 7 CommentsThis 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.
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Yea! It’s the first post ever dedicated to a question of mine. I feel special today!
Something in the air, then. As you know, I am getting ready to get our POA redone today because the notary’s commission AT the Sec. of State’s office expires in January (on my wedding, date, ironically). Should be a great day for a 4 hour roundtrip, plus a trip to the Sec. of State’s office. đŸ˜¦ Ugh.
Good to know about FedEx. đŸ™‚
Thanks for the shout-out, sort of, Art Sweet! Hang in there, our Guatebabies are waiting for us!!
Comment by Andrea— November 30, 2006 #
ahh! I hate driving around angst. But at least you know where the fed ex is.
& I think they will actually come pick it up from you if you print out all the stuff on-line.
xo
Comment by Calliope— November 30, 2006 #
You have finally outdone me with a paperwork story. WOW. I had no idea that fed ex will stop your mail from moving. One of those trivia facts I will squirrell away, but not so trivial to you! Sheesh.
Comment by Sue— November 30, 2006 #
Oh that sucks! I’m so sorry! At least you know now…because mine got kicked out by the registrar in Guat after it had been there for a month and we had to re-do it so we lost a month.
Comment by MAMB— November 30, 2006 #
Yipes!!!
Comment by liz— November 30, 2006 #
yeah. that fed ex thing is a gold nugget in this post for me.
you’re a regular font, sister. a font.
Comment by mopsa— November 30, 2006 #
I guess you did get gas then?
Comment by MileMasterSarah— November 30, 2006 #