Complications

It seems my darling wife's case is more complicated than previously thought.

We finally got in touch with the government advocacy specialist at NBN who quickly got us in contact with the wonderful and polite (who woulda thunkit??) people at the Jewish Agency. It seems our wonderfully unique case was discussed from NBN to Jewish Agency to Israeli consulate in NYC to Israeli consulate in Paris. And we were told the French consul in New York can grant us the elusive apostille on darling wife's birth certificate! This Thursday we will head on down there in the hope of rectifying this and finishing the last bunches of paperwork we will need to make the July flight.

We also mailed her name change certificate in to the state government for its apostille - hopefully we did it right and it will come back :)

So the remaining checklist papers-wise is:
• darling wife's Israeli passport, which needs her French birth certificate apostille and the name change apostille mentioned above
• getting legally married. We obtained our marriage license, and have a month left to get it signed by a licensed rabbi, send it in, and receive our marriage license.
• baby's passport
• and 6 passport pictures per person

And then we need to meet the Jewish Agency for final approval.

Then the fun with packing, furniture, bank accounts, hiring a lift, finding apartments, choosing a landing spot, etc. can start :)