Update....FOIA, Consulate appointment, second FOIA request

Ok, so I haven't posted anything in a while so I'm just making one big post. We continued checking our FOIA "Certificate of No Records" request and all of the sudden we went from #472 on April 2nd to "Request processed" on April 3rd. We were completely psyched.

A few weeks later we got the letter in the mail but it said we had to fax something in to do the second leg of the search. Damn it! I was hoping that was going to be automatic. So we faxed in the paper to do the second leg and it felt like starting all over again. We got another control number and started going back to the same website checking our number every day.

We went ahead and made an appointment with the consulate though. It's for September 21st. It's for Bobby and we're going to see if I can apply at the same time, or if I need a second appointment. It doesn't really matter either way because I can go to Italy without citizenship as long as Bobby has it.

So we were still pretty high up on the FOIA list, number 8000 or something so we were thinking we might have to change our consulate appointment, but then Bobby checked today and our request was processed! So now we're waiting to get it in the mail and hopefully it's the final "Certificate of No Records" and we don't have to do anything else at all. That would be sweet!