We wish all our friends and family and the kind people who follow our blog a very Merry Christmas and a Wonderful New Year.
Sean, Malory & Joshua
& Honey, where ever you are in Kazakhstan, We love you and think about you and wish you a Merry Christmas & hoping to have you in our arms in early 2009.
Love Mom, Dad & your Big Brother Josh XOXOXO
Wednesday, December 24, 2008
Friday, December 19, 2008
Well, once again, we've been had.....
Today we received an email from our agency telling us that our dossier will not be going to Kazakhstan before Christmas after all. It will be sent in January 2009 as was planned. We are told to count 10 days from December 18 however that does not count the weekends & the Christmas holidays & the Embassy re-opens January 5, 2009.
The expedited fee was a Bonus the Consul decided to give himself before Christmas out of our pockets. Bottom line is, every one must pay him $600. to get their files sent forward to Kazakhstan otherwise it will remain on some shelf gathering dust with other dossiers from other families that either refuses to give him bribe money or have no money to give. So we are back where we were, our dossier not going to Kazakhstan till January 2009 & $600 poorer. All the 9 families stuck at the Embassy since July (like us) have decided to pay so we will move forward I guess when it pleases the Consul.
With that being said, Merry Christmas to all.
Malory
The expedited fee was a Bonus the Consul decided to give himself before Christmas out of our pockets. Bottom line is, every one must pay him $600. to get their files sent forward to Kazakhstan otherwise it will remain on some shelf gathering dust with other dossiers from other families that either refuses to give him bribe money or have no money to give. So we are back where we were, our dossier not going to Kazakhstan till January 2009 & $600 poorer. All the 9 families stuck at the Embassy since July (like us) have decided to pay so we will move forward I guess when it pleases the Consul.
With that being said, Merry Christmas to all.
Malory
Friday, December 12, 2008
Our file is finally moving forward YEH !!!!!
I have been in touch with our Agency off & on trying to get our file moved forward & they have been working on doing this & finally today, I got a call at work. I was not expecting this & it came as a shock to me when she said who she was. We had advised them that we were willing to pay an expedited fee if we can be guaranteed that our file would move forward right away. Anjali told me when she called around 10:30 this morning that they could guarantee that our dossier would be sent to Kazakstan within the next 10 days. She added that once our file is in Kazakhstan to count 4 months then we would get ready to travel to meet our child. I cannot explain the emotions I felt at that time. Well, I will try, I was excited (of the great news), scared (of the reality of the upcoming long trip), rushed (go to the bank for the draft & post office to courier it), overwhelmed (I shared the news with friends & my mother in Law but not the most important ones like Sean & Josh as one is in a meeting all day & the other one is at school). It is a great news for us as our file has been in Ottawa since February 4, 2008 (almost 1 year). Right now I can only imagine what age she would be & what she would look like & if we are looking at the same stars at night wondering if we will ever meet. Isn't it funny, Everyone that knows me knows that I am all about Tinker Bell & her bedroom if full of things with TinkerBell. 2 days ago I bought a TinkerBell tree decoration that I did not want to buy until she was here & I saw it & thought about her & got it anyway. I guess that is a way we can have her with us at Christmas is with this little ferie who can dance in her dreams for us. I will do another update once we have an update & told that our file has been sent to Kazakhstan.
In the meantime, enjoy the snow & the cold. We will be snowmobiling this weekend no matter how cold it will be. Isn't it why they invented hot chocolate & hot tatty (spelling).
Malory
In the meantime, enjoy the snow & the cold. We will be snowmobiling this weekend no matter how cold it will be. Isn't it why they invented hot chocolate & hot tatty (spelling).
Malory
Wednesday, November 19, 2008
Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow!
Well, you guessed it, it's snowing, big fat slow moving snow flakes. It's beautiful. Too bad it's now enough to take the snowmobiles out yet.....
So far no news from our agency so we have resigned ourselves not to expect a miracle & that our dossier will not be forwarded before January 2009 so we are kinda hoping for a travel of late spring & summer 2009. Can you believe that our dossier was ready 1 year ago in January & it has been stuck in 2 different places since & at the Embassy since July......
By the time it is ready to go to kazakhstan, I am pretty sure we are going to get "shafted" once again & it will be returned to our Agency for the update eventhough the update has been with our Agency since September & I have been after them to translate it, Notorize it & to send it to the Foreigh Affairs in order to be ready to be sent to the Embassy so it is not refused & sent back to them & this has yet to be done .... It is Christmas soon & by that time it will be too late to ask Santa for a Miracle so I am still keeping my fingers crossed.
In the meantime, Have fun snow shovelling everyone!
Malory
So far no news from our agency so we have resigned ourselves not to expect a miracle & that our dossier will not be forwarded before January 2009 so we are kinda hoping for a travel of late spring & summer 2009. Can you believe that our dossier was ready 1 year ago in January & it has been stuck in 2 different places since & at the Embassy since July......
By the time it is ready to go to kazakhstan, I am pretty sure we are going to get "shafted" once again & it will be returned to our Agency for the update eventhough the update has been with our Agency since September & I have been after them to translate it, Notorize it & to send it to the Foreigh Affairs in order to be ready to be sent to the Embassy so it is not refused & sent back to them & this has yet to be done .... It is Christmas soon & by that time it will be too late to ask Santa for a Miracle so I am still keeping my fingers crossed.
In the meantime, Have fun snow shovelling everyone!
Malory
Friday, October 24, 2008
Travel not until Spring Summer 2009.....
Well, looks like we are not going to travel to Kazakhstan until spring-summer 2009. Anjali has been working really hard on trying to get a meeting with the Consulat however there has been some unforseen circomstances that have delayed this and now Anjali is going to Nepal on behalf of the Children's Bridge from Oct 29 to Nov 10 so nothing will happen before she returns.
If the meeting takes place, there is nothing to prove that it will turn out to be favourable. If it is, our files could be forwarded to kaz before Jan 2009, if not, then it will be Jan 2009. In any case, if is just a few months away so we can wait. My concerns is as I mentionned it before, that our file will remain here as it will need to be updated starting December & we will one again fall behind others.
I was assured by Nana that this would not occur. We will see. Don't get me wrong, I really like Nana & Anjali however they can't promess things that are out of their hands. If the decision of the Consulat is not favourable, I asked Nana & Anjali to pull our dossier out & to put all our new information on it & to have it to be the fist dossier to go to the Consulat once he accepts new dossiers. We will see how everything will play, I have confidence in them.
On a happy note, that way we will get to go in the spring. I am assuming May-July 2009 could be later. I am not holding my breath for before that. That's for sure. That way, no winter gears to carry with us, so a much lighter load if you see what I mean. Capris & shorts, sandals, tank tops & t-shirts instead of snow suit,toques, mitts, boots, pants,sweather......On the other hand, Josh will be missing the end of the school year. I already spoke with his teacher & we will see if he can do his homework on line or via email. I told him in the meantime to work really hard at getting ahead so he wont fall too far behind.
We are getting ready for Halloween. Josh & I are going to decorate the front yard today today. Can't wait.
Happy Halloween!
Talk to you after Anjali meets with the Consulat.
Malory
If the meeting takes place, there is nothing to prove that it will turn out to be favourable. If it is, our files could be forwarded to kaz before Jan 2009, if not, then it will be Jan 2009. In any case, if is just a few months away so we can wait. My concerns is as I mentionned it before, that our file will remain here as it will need to be updated starting December & we will one again fall behind others.
I was assured by Nana that this would not occur. We will see. Don't get me wrong, I really like Nana & Anjali however they can't promess things that are out of their hands. If the decision of the Consulat is not favourable, I asked Nana & Anjali to pull our dossier out & to put all our new information on it & to have it to be the fist dossier to go to the Consulat once he accepts new dossiers. We will see how everything will play, I have confidence in them.
On a happy note, that way we will get to go in the spring. I am assuming May-July 2009 could be later. I am not holding my breath for before that. That's for sure. That way, no winter gears to carry with us, so a much lighter load if you see what I mean. Capris & shorts, sandals, tank tops & t-shirts instead of snow suit,toques, mitts, boots, pants,sweather......On the other hand, Josh will be missing the end of the school year. I already spoke with his teacher & we will see if he can do his homework on line or via email. I told him in the meantime to work really hard at getting ahead so he wont fall too far behind.
We are getting ready for Halloween. Josh & I are going to decorate the front yard today today. Can't wait.
Happy Halloween!
Talk to you after Anjali meets with the Consulat.
Malory
Wednesday, October 08, 2008
Disapointing news with a silver lining....
Hello everyone!
I got some rather disapointing news which started with a conversation with my mother. She said that she saw on the News on TV in Quebec that Kazakhstan will put adoptions on hold as there is some
" issues" with another Country but she could not remember the other Country's name. I asked her if she was certain it was Kazakhstan as it could have been Kurkistan. She said she was sure.
I then contacted our adoption agency & spoke with Nana, one of our co-ordinator & she did not hear anything like this but did say that neither her or Anjali were able to get a hold of anyone at the Embassy for over 1 week. she said she will be looking into it.
We received an email last night from Nana saying she wanted us to know right away before anyone else as we deserve this much & the others will know next week in their biwkly update. She said that she went to the Embassy yesterday as she had some other things to do there & took this opportunity to ask & she was told that for a reason they will not discuss, they are putting ALL ADOPTIONS FROM ALL AGENCIES on hold until the new year. They will not send anything they already have (3 dossiers: 2 for the City of Almaty and 1 for the City of Karaganda: ours). They told her once they know more in January, they will either proceed with the adoptions or advise of further delayes.
This was the very disapointing news.
Now, the silver lining:
We were told in July that we would be expected to travel to Kaz after the new year and by that date, our dossier would be stale dated so to not take any chances, we should redo our medical, Interpol, Police records check, employer and financial letters and an update to our home study ASAP. We , rather I did take her advise to heart and started to update all this against Sean's advise " why are we doing this now... you don't know, we can be going in December & no need to do all this & spend more money & bla bla bla." I told him to be quiet as I am the one who will be doing all the leg work, all he has to do is show up. We finally got to see our I.P. (the one who does the home study). I mentionned to her & to our agent at Social Services that Sean & I are very frustrated because when we did our initial home study we were asked to provide dates we would prefer our child to be born in rather than an acutal age. So as we were told there is no girls under the age of 2 we thought we would pick January 2008 to July 2005 (1-3.5 yrs old) but as the delayes are increasing, so will be the age of the child.
Our I.P and Social Services said they will change the letter for the home study & the provincial letter to read the same dates but specified that we prefer the younger portion of the age range and would be more than willing to consider an even younger child. So according to our adoption agency this will acutally help us get a youger child as they take the Provincial letter very seriously & go by it no matter what the dossier says & they tend to give the youngest child possible.
So, there is hope for us yet to get a baby or a very young toddler. On the plus side as well is no winter travel means no winter gears to bring & no heavy clothes to bring & we will not be stuck indoors.
So I chose to think positive and see the silver lining
I will let you know once we have an update after the new year.
Malory
I got some rather disapointing news which started with a conversation with my mother. She said that she saw on the News on TV in Quebec that Kazakhstan will put adoptions on hold as there is some
" issues" with another Country but she could not remember the other Country's name. I asked her if she was certain it was Kazakhstan as it could have been Kurkistan. She said she was sure.
I then contacted our adoption agency & spoke with Nana, one of our co-ordinator & she did not hear anything like this but did say that neither her or Anjali were able to get a hold of anyone at the Embassy for over 1 week. she said she will be looking into it.
We received an email last night from Nana saying she wanted us to know right away before anyone else as we deserve this much & the others will know next week in their biwkly update. She said that she went to the Embassy yesterday as she had some other things to do there & took this opportunity to ask & she was told that for a reason they will not discuss, they are putting ALL ADOPTIONS FROM ALL AGENCIES on hold until the new year. They will not send anything they already have (3 dossiers: 2 for the City of Almaty and 1 for the City of Karaganda: ours). They told her once they know more in January, they will either proceed with the adoptions or advise of further delayes.
This was the very disapointing news.
Now, the silver lining:
We were told in July that we would be expected to travel to Kaz after the new year and by that date, our dossier would be stale dated so to not take any chances, we should redo our medical, Interpol, Police records check, employer and financial letters and an update to our home study ASAP. We , rather I did take her advise to heart and started to update all this against Sean's advise " why are we doing this now... you don't know, we can be going in December & no need to do all this & spend more money & bla bla bla." I told him to be quiet as I am the one who will be doing all the leg work, all he has to do is show up. We finally got to see our I.P. (the one who does the home study). I mentionned to her & to our agent at Social Services that Sean & I are very frustrated because when we did our initial home study we were asked to provide dates we would prefer our child to be born in rather than an acutal age. So as we were told there is no girls under the age of 2 we thought we would pick January 2008 to July 2005 (1-3.5 yrs old) but as the delayes are increasing, so will be the age of the child.
Our I.P and Social Services said they will change the letter for the home study & the provincial letter to read the same dates but specified that we prefer the younger portion of the age range and would be more than willing to consider an even younger child. So according to our adoption agency this will acutally help us get a youger child as they take the Provincial letter very seriously & go by it no matter what the dossier says & they tend to give the youngest child possible.
So, there is hope for us yet to get a baby or a very young toddler. On the plus side as well is no winter travel means no winter gears to bring & no heavy clothes to bring & we will not be stuck indoors.
So I chose to think positive and see the silver lining
I will let you know once we have an update after the new year.
Malory
Sunday, September 14, 2008
New development, not much change
Hello Everyone.I have been in touch with lots of families from CB agency that have gone to Kazkhstan already, some are in the process of going & some are waiting just like us. It is amaising to know their stories. I have received more information from them in 1 week than I have received from CB since November 2007. I know now that the embassy "usually" takes 1 month not 2 & that the waiting period varies depending on where you go. (Anjali did say that). I saw that there is a family that have waited 6 months after their file was sent to Kaz to get a LOI, I don't know if they asked for a girl & what age they asked. They were however given 2 weeks notice to get there. They were told on Sept 9 to be there on Sept 25 so they were not kidding when they said you have to be ready to leave in 2 weeks once the LOI (letter of Invitation) is received. Sean & I are ready for that & we already wrote Josh's teacher a letter explaining this & indicated that one we know when we leave, we will be contacting her to request a curriculum for Josh. We were also told by another family that there is no need to go to Russia anymore if you don't want to. We can sign a power of attorney to someone who will complete all the papers that are left to do on our behalf while we wait in Kaz & once they are completed we can go home from there. That is a huge load of our mind.
As our dossier was sent to the Embassy on August 28, I should hope to do another update early October to advise that our dossier was sent to Kaz. From there, again, as we are gender specific but the age of our daughter should be between 2-4.5 yrs old, we may be delayed & we may be not.
In the meantime, enjoy the beautiful sunrise over Martenstensville, SK on Aug 26,2008 . It doesn't get better than this.
Malory
Saturday, August 30, 2008
Moving forward
Finally!Our dossier has finally been sent to the Embassy!
We are told that it can take up to 2 months for the Embassy to forward our dossier to Kazakhstan.
From there, we are told that it will take at least 3 months before we can expect to receive our letter of invitation.
In the meantime, Josh is enjoying his friends. Here he is with his friend Austin playing Guitar Hero. he is so good at it too. Josh started school again, grade 2. He was excited to go & still is.
I, in the meantime, am working my days off to bank my time because of the need to be in kazakhstan for 2 whole months & I don't have that many days off. I need enough for the whole 2 months plus I want to take at least the week off before we leave to do last minute things. So I need about 40 days & I have about 20 so far, so I will try to accumulate as much as possible until we go.
Sean is his usual self not much to say. he has enough vacation so no need to work then off.
Thank is all for now & I will post again once we are told that our dossier was sent to Kazakhstan. In the meantime we are updating some papers for dossier as they will be stale date by the time we go.
Talk to you at the very latest early November.
Malory
Wednesday, August 20, 2008
Thursday, July 17, 2008
Panic- calm down-Panic- Mad- calm down everythings okay
Hello everyone!
I was hoping to write the next blog when we finally get a referral but, as things don't go according to plans, here it is:
We got an email from our adoption agency's executive director monday (July 14) that they just received the news from the Consulate that there was a change in the process & files are being returned to the agency to update documents & as Kazakhstan did not like the way the files were stamped by the Ministry, they were also returned to be stamped properly. The Ministry were stamping the 1st & last page of every dossier but now would have to stamp all pages & that the Ministry has agreed to only stamp 10 pages per day (a dossier can have up to approx 80 pages) that is about 8 days per dossier. The email continued by saying that all of the families affected willbe contacted the next day. I started to panic. I asked Sean to read the email & give me a level headed summary of what he thought this meant for us. He read it & said: " Mal, this doesn't affect us cause our file was sent to the Consulate June 13 so it's probably in Kazakhstan by now."- so my head goes into mode: Calm down.
The next day we get home & I check our email & there it is, we had been affected. There was an email from the agency saying that Anjali (person in charge of the program) was coming to Ottawa & was bringing our dossier along with 7 others and we needed to update some documents & she asked at which phone # we would like to be reached as she will call me the next day to discuss further. I started to Panic again. I gave her my cel phone #. I was almost in tears. I came really close to say, pull our files, we are getting out but my better judgement & mother instinct kicked in & I did not say anything.
Yesterday I carried my cell phone hooked to my pants all day & no calls. I was devastated, thinking the worst (there is something wrong & they are afraid to call... I was thinking). I wrote an email from work during my break & I had the brillance of mind to instead of sending it to them, I sent it home for Sean (cool headed guy that he is) to read over & remove any profanity I might have put in (can't remember if there was any I was too upset) & write more professionally. Then we sent the email from home. In brief I expressed our concers & desapointment of not getting any calls & said that I was expecting a call from someone the next day. (i sent the email to the person that was suppose to call us(Nana), Anjali (in charge of program) & the executive director (who wrote initial email).
I got a call back from Anjali today. She said that documents needed to be updated & so on & so forth. I told Anjali that I did not think so. That I had approched Nana a few months ago about this very thing as the papers we got inititally said 6 months & then they need to be updated. I had told Nana that as our file was at their agency for 4 months that our documents need to be updated already & she had assured me that Anjali was able to negociate a 1 yr date. So, based on this, we should be okay because the oldest documents should be around November 2007 & newest Jan 2008. She was surprised at that & went to get our dossier. She looked at it & was extatic that our dossier was fine & could be returned for processing to Kazakhstan. It has to go through the 10 page stamping per day so, to be on the safe side, it could take up to 2 months before our file is sent to kazakhstan.
She said that as some document will become stale dated in Nov 2007 that to be on the safe side that we should update all document needed before we go so we should start now & once we have then to send them the new documents for translation & to be ready to send to Kazakhstan once we get a referral. She added that she will not hold any dossier for anyone else so our will be moving along on it's own. We went from being behind 7 dossiers to be in front of all of them. As much as I feel bad for these families, I am glad we are moving forward.
Angali said that we will get an email from Nana when our dossier is sent to the Embassy & we will get another email once it is sent to Kazakhstan & she also said to me: " Malory, once your dossier is sent to kazakhstan, count 3 months then you go." That made it so real for me. I did not know what to say. She appologized for the confusion and said she will process this as fast as possible. ( calm down Mal everything is okay.)
So with that being said, we are looking at hopefully Dec-Jan unless the specific we are asking for is not available ( healthy girl between 1- 3 1/2 yrs old)
I hope to write again once we get a referral.
Malory
I was hoping to write the next blog when we finally get a referral but, as things don't go according to plans, here it is:
We got an email from our adoption agency's executive director monday (July 14) that they just received the news from the Consulate that there was a change in the process & files are being returned to the agency to update documents & as Kazakhstan did not like the way the files were stamped by the Ministry, they were also returned to be stamped properly. The Ministry were stamping the 1st & last page of every dossier but now would have to stamp all pages & that the Ministry has agreed to only stamp 10 pages per day (a dossier can have up to approx 80 pages) that is about 8 days per dossier. The email continued by saying that all of the families affected willbe contacted the next day. I started to panic. I asked Sean to read the email & give me a level headed summary of what he thought this meant for us. He read it & said: " Mal, this doesn't affect us cause our file was sent to the Consulate June 13 so it's probably in Kazakhstan by now."- so my head goes into mode: Calm down.
The next day we get home & I check our email & there it is, we had been affected. There was an email from the agency saying that Anjali (person in charge of the program) was coming to Ottawa & was bringing our dossier along with 7 others and we needed to update some documents & she asked at which phone # we would like to be reached as she will call me the next day to discuss further. I started to Panic again. I gave her my cel phone #. I was almost in tears. I came really close to say, pull our files, we are getting out but my better judgement & mother instinct kicked in & I did not say anything.
Yesterday I carried my cell phone hooked to my pants all day & no calls. I was devastated, thinking the worst (there is something wrong & they are afraid to call... I was thinking). I wrote an email from work during my break & I had the brillance of mind to instead of sending it to them, I sent it home for Sean (cool headed guy that he is) to read over & remove any profanity I might have put in (can't remember if there was any I was too upset) & write more professionally. Then we sent the email from home. In brief I expressed our concers & desapointment of not getting any calls & said that I was expecting a call from someone the next day. (i sent the email to the person that was suppose to call us(Nana), Anjali (in charge of program) & the executive director (who wrote initial email).
I got a call back from Anjali today. She said that documents needed to be updated & so on & so forth. I told Anjali that I did not think so. That I had approched Nana a few months ago about this very thing as the papers we got inititally said 6 months & then they need to be updated. I had told Nana that as our file was at their agency for 4 months that our documents need to be updated already & she had assured me that Anjali was able to negociate a 1 yr date. So, based on this, we should be okay because the oldest documents should be around November 2007 & newest Jan 2008. She was surprised at that & went to get our dossier. She looked at it & was extatic that our dossier was fine & could be returned for processing to Kazakhstan. It has to go through the 10 page stamping per day so, to be on the safe side, it could take up to 2 months before our file is sent to kazakhstan.
She said that as some document will become stale dated in Nov 2007 that to be on the safe side that we should update all document needed before we go so we should start now & once we have then to send them the new documents for translation & to be ready to send to Kazakhstan once we get a referral. She added that she will not hold any dossier for anyone else so our will be moving along on it's own. We went from being behind 7 dossiers to be in front of all of them. As much as I feel bad for these families, I am glad we are moving forward.
Angali said that we will get an email from Nana when our dossier is sent to the Embassy & we will get another email once it is sent to Kazakhstan & she also said to me: " Malory, once your dossier is sent to kazakhstan, count 3 months then you go." That made it so real for me. I did not know what to say. She appologized for the confusion and said she will process this as fast as possible. ( calm down Mal everything is okay.)
So with that being said, we are looking at hopefully Dec-Jan unless the specific we are asking for is not available ( healthy girl between 1- 3 1/2 yrs old)
I hope to write again once we get a referral.
Malory
Tuesday, June 17, 2008
Finally sent to the Kazakhstan Consulat
Hi Everyone.
Finally our file has been sent to the Kazahstan Consulat to be authenticated & from there it will be sent to Kazakhstan. We were told that it can take from 2-4 weeks at the consulat & then 3-4 weeks per agencies x 3 in Kazakhstan so it's been their experience that it will be approx 4 months before we get a letter of invitation.
With that being said, there are a few factors that can come in to play to either speed up or slow down the process. As we are of the first batch that are sent to the city of Karaganda the 4 months waiting period could be longer or shorter than what they expereienced with the city of Almaty. Also, we are requesting a girl instead of a no gender preference, so our letter of invitation will depend on the availability of the girls they have that falls into our requirements. We asked that she be born between July 2005 to Jan 2008. So we will see.
With those timelines, we are lokking at spending my birthday & Christmas in Kazakhstan with our new daughter.
Talk to you next, when we receive our letter of invitation.
Malory
Finally our file has been sent to the Kazahstan Consulat to be authenticated & from there it will be sent to Kazakhstan. We were told that it can take from 2-4 weeks at the consulat & then 3-4 weeks per agencies x 3 in Kazakhstan so it's been their experience that it will be approx 4 months before we get a letter of invitation.
With that being said, there are a few factors that can come in to play to either speed up or slow down the process. As we are of the first batch that are sent to the city of Karaganda the 4 months waiting period could be longer or shorter than what they expereienced with the city of Almaty. Also, we are requesting a girl instead of a no gender preference, so our letter of invitation will depend on the availability of the girls they have that falls into our requirements. We asked that she be born between July 2005 to Jan 2008. So we will see.
With those timelines, we are lokking at spending my birthday & Christmas in Kazakhstan with our new daughter.
Talk to you next, when we receive our letter of invitation.
Malory
Sunday, May 11, 2008
Nothing more so far
Hi Everyone.
It's Mother's Day today & had a great day with my son & husband. Went to see Iron Man & my boy gave me some flowers that he made himself in school & read me a card he wrote himself. I cried.
About our dossier, still nothing. It was sent to Montreal to be translated on April 7, 2008 & it is now May 11, 2008 & still no news. I was advised that the lady who translate is on her own & has a few agencies she works for so I am not sure what that means in terms of timeline. This is getting ridiculous. All I know is that once it comes back from the translater, it goes to the kazakhstan consulat in Ontario to be autheticated & off it goes so it's a matter a patience.
I will post again once I get the email from CB that it has gone as we then need to send the adoption fee right after that.
Hope it's soon!
Talk to you soon.
Malory
It's Mother's Day today & had a great day with my son & husband. Went to see Iron Man & my boy gave me some flowers that he made himself in school & read me a card he wrote himself. I cried.
About our dossier, still nothing. It was sent to Montreal to be translated on April 7, 2008 & it is now May 11, 2008 & still no news. I was advised that the lady who translate is on her own & has a few agencies she works for so I am not sure what that means in terms of timeline. This is getting ridiculous. All I know is that once it comes back from the translater, it goes to the kazakhstan consulat in Ontario to be autheticated & off it goes so it's a matter a patience.
I will post again once I get the email from CB that it has gone as we then need to send the adoption fee right after that.
Hope it's soon!
Talk to you soon.
Malory
Saturday, March 08, 2008
We are getting closer
Hello Everyone!
Well, this is it. It's finally completely out of our hands.
Social Services sent our dossier to Children's Bridge February 27 & I was on the phone with Nana at CB & she opened our package there on March 4. As she only works with the Kazakhstan people Mondays and Tuesdays, she promessed she would be going through our file on Monday March 10. She will then send it to be notorized & then sent to the Kazakhstan consulate in Ontario to be translated & then it's on it's way to Kazakhstan from there.
I am hoping the whole process while at CB will not take longer than 6 weeks from now so that our dossier would be in Kazakhstan no later than end of April so we can go there and be back home in time for her First Christmas.
I am kinda getting nervous but Sean, it doesn't seem to phase him right now. Josh is getting a bit antsy. I think he is nervous & perhaps a bit scared that he will have to share his mom & dad with another child but I am sure he will get over it soon. Most kids go through that phase anyway with their flesh & blood siblings. After all, he has been the centre of our world for 7 years with no one to come in between.
We are taking him to Disneyland in April and we are getting him a loft bed with a slide for his birthday so he sees that because our focus is starting to split that we are not forgetting him at all. He sees that we are starting to buy things for his sister slowly & that bothers him a bit I guess. I make sure to tell him that what ever we are getting her right now that he can read, play & look at it first to make sure it's okay for her to use. That makes him feel good that his job is to make sure everything is safe for her.
I will post again once our file is sent to Kazakhstan & then after that it will be when we are called with the proposal.
Hope to post again real soon........:)
Malory
Well, this is it. It's finally completely out of our hands.
Social Services sent our dossier to Children's Bridge February 27 & I was on the phone with Nana at CB & she opened our package there on March 4. As she only works with the Kazakhstan people Mondays and Tuesdays, she promessed she would be going through our file on Monday March 10. She will then send it to be notorized & then sent to the Kazakhstan consulate in Ontario to be translated & then it's on it's way to Kazakhstan from there.
I am hoping the whole process while at CB will not take longer than 6 weeks from now so that our dossier would be in Kazakhstan no later than end of April so we can go there and be back home in time for her First Christmas.
I am kinda getting nervous but Sean, it doesn't seem to phase him right now. Josh is getting a bit antsy. I think he is nervous & perhaps a bit scared that he will have to share his mom & dad with another child but I am sure he will get over it soon. Most kids go through that phase anyway with their flesh & blood siblings. After all, he has been the centre of our world for 7 years with no one to come in between.
We are taking him to Disneyland in April and we are getting him a loft bed with a slide for his birthday so he sees that because our focus is starting to split that we are not forgetting him at all. He sees that we are starting to buy things for his sister slowly & that bothers him a bit I guess. I make sure to tell him that what ever we are getting her right now that he can read, play & look at it first to make sure it's okay for her to use. That makes him feel good that his job is to make sure everything is safe for her.
I will post again once our file is sent to Kazakhstan & then after that it will be when we are called with the proposal.
Hope to post again real soon........:)
Malory
Wednesday, February 27, 2008
Dossier sent to Social Services
Hi Everyone!
Finally, our dossier has been sent to social services. Not without it's problems, of course.
First, I faxed our Interpol & medical forms to our IP so she can review them & then send the home study to Social services but, as it was " SPRING BREAK" she was not at work for the week. So, it sat there till the next monday. Then, I was told by social services that I needed to meet with my own Notary Public & have our passports, birth certificates & marriage certificate copies notorized. So, thank God we are in the same building as 2 law firms so I called & met with a lawyer who is also a notary public & she did those in 45 mins. (there was 35 pages). It only cost me $35.00. Then,I got a call from social services telling me that one of our forms " Adoption application" needed to be signed in front of a notary public and this needed to be done right away. Sean of course was out of town for the next 3 days, so, I called our Notary public again & made an appointment for that Friday to go meet her with Sean & sign this there. On Friday, we met, it took about 2 minutes & then I walked the document to social services.
On Monday Feb 25, I called our I.P & was told that the home study was sent to S.S that day.
On tuesday Feb 26, I received a call from S.S telling me that we completed the application to adopt wrong. We completed lines 1 & 2 for the age of the child & we should have completed just one. I told her that this is not what I thought as line 1 is your 1st choise & line 2 is in case there is no girl matching line 1. But she said no, line 1 is for 1 child & line 2 is in case you adopt 2 kids. I told her I did not think so as they were both quite clear that no one can adopt more than 1 child at the time so why would there be 2 lines for 2 kids. I called Children'd Bridge & they confirmed what I was saying. I was told we completed it perfectly & not to change anything. I called S.S back & told her that. She was okay with this..... No just wait, you thought that I was done, well, WRONG.....
On that same day, I got a call from my IP in the morning & a call from S.S within minutes of each other that something needed to be changed. I spoke to S.S & the dates we had on our application to adopt did not match the rest of the dossier/home study & our oficial letter which all said that we are looking for a girl as young as possible to the age of 3 1/2 but our application to adopt had 3 yrs old, so I walked to S.S & changed that & luckily, I did not need to have it re-notorized again. Then, Sean & I walked to our IP & the problem was that we had signed the front of the home study & we needed to sign the back. Easy quick fix, it took about 5 mins & a total of 20 mins with the walk there & back.
Now, I was assured that everything looks good & all there is to be done at S.S is to notorize the dossier & forward it to Children's Bridge who in term has it translated.
So, it should take approximately 1- 1 1/2 month so lets say Mid April until our dossier is received in Kazakhstan.
Thank is all for now & lets hope we don't come across more problems & that the proces goes smoothly from this point on.
TTFN
Malory
Finally, our dossier has been sent to social services. Not without it's problems, of course.
First, I faxed our Interpol & medical forms to our IP so she can review them & then send the home study to Social services but, as it was " SPRING BREAK" she was not at work for the week. So, it sat there till the next monday. Then, I was told by social services that I needed to meet with my own Notary Public & have our passports, birth certificates & marriage certificate copies notorized. So, thank God we are in the same building as 2 law firms so I called & met with a lawyer who is also a notary public & she did those in 45 mins. (there was 35 pages). It only cost me $35.00. Then,I got a call from social services telling me that one of our forms " Adoption application" needed to be signed in front of a notary public and this needed to be done right away. Sean of course was out of town for the next 3 days, so, I called our Notary public again & made an appointment for that Friday to go meet her with Sean & sign this there. On Friday, we met, it took about 2 minutes & then I walked the document to social services.
On Monday Feb 25, I called our I.P & was told that the home study was sent to S.S that day.
On tuesday Feb 26, I received a call from S.S telling me that we completed the application to adopt wrong. We completed lines 1 & 2 for the age of the child & we should have completed just one. I told her that this is not what I thought as line 1 is your 1st choise & line 2 is in case there is no girl matching line 1. But she said no, line 1 is for 1 child & line 2 is in case you adopt 2 kids. I told her I did not think so as they were both quite clear that no one can adopt more than 1 child at the time so why would there be 2 lines for 2 kids. I called Children'd Bridge & they confirmed what I was saying. I was told we completed it perfectly & not to change anything. I called S.S back & told her that. She was okay with this..... No just wait, you thought that I was done, well, WRONG.....
On that same day, I got a call from my IP in the morning & a call from S.S within minutes of each other that something needed to be changed. I spoke to S.S & the dates we had on our application to adopt did not match the rest of the dossier/home study & our oficial letter which all said that we are looking for a girl as young as possible to the age of 3 1/2 but our application to adopt had 3 yrs old, so I walked to S.S & changed that & luckily, I did not need to have it re-notorized again. Then, Sean & I walked to our IP & the problem was that we had signed the front of the home study & we needed to sign the back. Easy quick fix, it took about 5 mins & a total of 20 mins with the walk there & back.
Now, I was assured that everything looks good & all there is to be done at S.S is to notorize the dossier & forward it to Children's Bridge who in term has it translated.
So, it should take approximately 1- 1 1/2 month so lets say Mid April until our dossier is received in Kazakhstan.
Thank is all for now & lets hope we don't come across more problems & that the proces goes smoothly from this point on.
TTFN
Malory
Monday, February 18, 2008
IT'S HERE, IT'S HERE !!!!!!!!!!
Well folks, I went to the post office & the last piece of the puzzle has finally arrived...... Sean's Interpol.
We are good to go.........YEH!!!!
Tomorrow I will go to Social Services at my coffee break in the morning (it's across the street from where I work) & drop off everything.
Then at lunch I will go our Independant practitioner (home study) & give her the copies of the medical reports & the Interpol she needs to complete our home study & she can send everything to Social Services that afternoon, one hopes.
So from now on, I will keep you posted as we are getting the information.
Today, after I got the Interpol, I went to the store & bought our little girl some clothes, running shoes that lights up, winter boots & winter jacket as they were all on sale. I got great stuff for a great price. I bought all around age 3 so even if she is younger, she will eventually fit in those clothes. In the mean time, I have lots of girl clothes under the age of 3, in case.
So Valentine's day, I got my Interpol & on Family day Sean got his, So I am thinking this is a good omen..
TTFN
Malory
We are good to go.........YEH!!!!
Tomorrow I will go to Social Services at my coffee break in the morning (it's across the street from where I work) & drop off everything.
Then at lunch I will go our Independant practitioner (home study) & give her the copies of the medical reports & the Interpol she needs to complete our home study & she can send everything to Social Services that afternoon, one hopes.
So from now on, I will keep you posted as we are getting the information.
Today, after I got the Interpol, I went to the store & bought our little girl some clothes, running shoes that lights up, winter boots & winter jacket as they were all on sale. I got great stuff for a great price. I bought all around age 3 so even if she is younger, she will eventually fit in those clothes. In the mean time, I have lots of girl clothes under the age of 3, in case.
So Valentine's day, I got my Interpol & on Family day Sean got his, So I am thinking this is a good omen..
TTFN
Malory
Just about there
Hi Everyone!
Well, we are just about there. I received MY Interpol on Thursday. Sean did not!!!!! Eventhough they were mailed in the same envelope & they were returned last time in the same envelope. I guess they decided to seperate them at some point in their research. My estimate is that they will arrive tomorrow tuesday Feb 19 & not today,monday because of our provincial holiday " Family Day". I will go to the post office anyway, just in case as they are FEDs & not provincial. One can only hope.
Once the Interpol is in, OFF EVERYTHING GOES TO SOCIAL SERVICES & IT'S WAITING TIME.
We were told by CB that if we get our dossier in by the 1st week of March lets say, we can look at travelling by mid September 2008. Now I don't know what " in meant" either in at CB or in as in Kazakhstan. Social Services will take about 1-2 weeks & CB will take about 3 weeks so we are looking at the dossier arriving in Kazakhstan approx in late March early April so we could be looking at going late September mid October 2008. If this is correct, we should be back home in time for Christmas (a daughter for Christmas).
I will keep you posted on the process as everything should be going quite fast from here on. At least this is what I hope.
Talk to you soon.
Malory
Well, we are just about there. I received MY Interpol on Thursday. Sean did not!!!!! Eventhough they were mailed in the same envelope & they were returned last time in the same envelope. I guess they decided to seperate them at some point in their research. My estimate is that they will arrive tomorrow tuesday Feb 19 & not today,monday because of our provincial holiday " Family Day". I will go to the post office anyway, just in case as they are FEDs & not provincial. One can only hope.
Once the Interpol is in, OFF EVERYTHING GOES TO SOCIAL SERVICES & IT'S WAITING TIME.
We were told by CB that if we get our dossier in by the 1st week of March lets say, we can look at travelling by mid September 2008. Now I don't know what " in meant" either in at CB or in as in Kazakhstan. Social Services will take about 1-2 weeks & CB will take about 3 weeks so we are looking at the dossier arriving in Kazakhstan approx in late March early April so we could be looking at going late September mid October 2008. If this is correct, we should be back home in time for Christmas (a daughter for Christmas).
I will keep you posted on the process as everything should be going quite fast from here on. At least this is what I hope.
Talk to you soon.
Malory
Saturday, January 26, 2008
Delayed by our own confusion
Hi Everyone!
We finally got our doctor to sign the medical forms & all we needed was the Interpol. I left yet another message for them to call me back & they never did. Then on the same day that we got the medical report, we went to the post office & there it was.
I went back to the car & opened the envelop, so excited, & then to Sean's surprise a bunch of curse words came out of my mouth. (Josh was not in the car). It turn out that both of us, not just Sean or I but both forgot to indicate that this was for an adoption. There was a letter attached to it saying " We did this for you Nov 2006 for an adoption, what do you need this for, Adoption?, Visa?..." I thought I was going to throw up. As all the stuff they needed were in this envelop, I went back in the Post Office & bought an express post envelop & ensured that we did say what it was for this time & resent it.
I know they say " Everything happens for a reason" Well, we will find out sooner or later what this reason was. For now, we are hoping to reveive it by February 8th. That would be two weeks which is what it took last year. Last time it was 1 month because of Christmas & New Year.
We are going today to clean out the cabin as we finally sold it & got what we wanted for. No need to borrow money for the adoption. Ah! this is a good news.
On that note, have a nice weekend & Hope the next blog is around February 8th.
Malory
We finally got our doctor to sign the medical forms & all we needed was the Interpol. I left yet another message for them to call me back & they never did. Then on the same day that we got the medical report, we went to the post office & there it was.
I went back to the car & opened the envelop, so excited, & then to Sean's surprise a bunch of curse words came out of my mouth. (Josh was not in the car). It turn out that both of us, not just Sean or I but both forgot to indicate that this was for an adoption. There was a letter attached to it saying " We did this for you Nov 2006 for an adoption, what do you need this for, Adoption?, Visa?..." I thought I was going to throw up. As all the stuff they needed were in this envelop, I went back in the Post Office & bought an express post envelop & ensured that we did say what it was for this time & resent it.
I know they say " Everything happens for a reason" Well, we will find out sooner or later what this reason was. For now, we are hoping to reveive it by February 8th. That would be two weeks which is what it took last year. Last time it was 1 month because of Christmas & New Year.
We are going today to clean out the cabin as we finally sold it & got what we wanted for. No need to borrow money for the adoption. Ah! this is a good news.
On that note, have a nice weekend & Hope the next blog is around February 8th.
Malory
Sunday, January 20, 2008
Almost there....
Hello everyone.
Well, We met with our independant practitioner & the home study is ready. She is waiting for us to give her a copy of our Interpol & the medical forms.
We had the Interpol done Dec 13 & Canada Post tracking system shows it was received Dec 17. I called the RCMP in Ottawa last tuesday & the voicemail said to leave some information & I could expect a call back in 2-3 days. Well, It has now been 5 days & no one has returned my call. Obviously the FEDS don't have the same standards as we do at WCB. They have had our information for more than 1 month & still nothing.
I was also waiting for our blood test results to come back for our doctor to sign the medical forms & the doctor said we would receive it by mail & when we do, to make an appoitment with her so she can sign the forms. Well, the blood test was done on December 30th & we were told 1 week & still nothing. I called the doctor's office & rescheduled the appointments 5 times & yesterday I called to cancel all together & I was going to just wait & see when it comes in to make an appointment & the receptionist looked in my chart & said that the results have been in since January 7. As the results were negative no one called us. I almost lost it on the phone & then I remembered that it is not her fault but her office policy. She then remembered that we were waiting for that for an adoption to proceed & she said our files shows we paid for the medical forms so they just assumed it was done. So needless to say that I did not cancel the appointment for tomorrow & we will be done with the medical portion. All we have left to wait for is the Interpol.
I started the process of Citizenship & before we can ask for her's I need to show that I am a Canadian Citizen & apply for myself as a sponsor. I sent that on Thursday (registered mail of course)& once I receive the okay to proceed then I have to start her Citizenship. We don't need to do Immigration 1st anymore, we can just go straight to Citizenship. One less bureaucratic step to do.
Once we receive the Interpol I will walk over to our IP to give her the copies of it & walk the rest over to our Social Service Adoption worker & then it's out of our hands. We should know 1 - 1 1/2 months later at which point we are in the game.
For now I am getting us ready slowly. I say "I" because Josh has no idea about packing & make sure everything we need is there, all he cares about is his games & 2 of his favourite stuffed animals & Sean is a last minute packer & so he doesn't understand why I am making lists of things to bring & why I worry about it now instead of waiting that we get a call to travel & then run around like chickens with our heads cut off to make sure everything is done & ready in 2 weeks. Well if I would be doing what he is proposing, we either go there with half of our stuff missing or he has to deal with me being so stressed that it would be like what Sean is calling "PMSing". As he doesn't want that & neither do I, he leaves me alone with my slow packing & revising of my lists.
No, it's not OCD, it's planning, organizing & being a mother to ensure everyone has what they need. You think that he would thank me when he is looking or needing something & then he asks me " you wouldn't happend to have.....?" & my answer is " yes, do you need it." No, no thanks here...... Yeh! I love the guy.
Anyway, enough rambling on. I will do another update once everything is done & sent to Social Services.
Malory
Well, We met with our independant practitioner & the home study is ready. She is waiting for us to give her a copy of our Interpol & the medical forms.
We had the Interpol done Dec 13 & Canada Post tracking system shows it was received Dec 17. I called the RCMP in Ottawa last tuesday & the voicemail said to leave some information & I could expect a call back in 2-3 days. Well, It has now been 5 days & no one has returned my call. Obviously the FEDS don't have the same standards as we do at WCB. They have had our information for more than 1 month & still nothing.
I was also waiting for our blood test results to come back for our doctor to sign the medical forms & the doctor said we would receive it by mail & when we do, to make an appoitment with her so she can sign the forms. Well, the blood test was done on December 30th & we were told 1 week & still nothing. I called the doctor's office & rescheduled the appointments 5 times & yesterday I called to cancel all together & I was going to just wait & see when it comes in to make an appointment & the receptionist looked in my chart & said that the results have been in since January 7. As the results were negative no one called us. I almost lost it on the phone & then I remembered that it is not her fault but her office policy. She then remembered that we were waiting for that for an adoption to proceed & she said our files shows we paid for the medical forms so they just assumed it was done. So needless to say that I did not cancel the appointment for tomorrow & we will be done with the medical portion. All we have left to wait for is the Interpol.
I started the process of Citizenship & before we can ask for her's I need to show that I am a Canadian Citizen & apply for myself as a sponsor. I sent that on Thursday (registered mail of course)& once I receive the okay to proceed then I have to start her Citizenship. We don't need to do Immigration 1st anymore, we can just go straight to Citizenship. One less bureaucratic step to do.
Once we receive the Interpol I will walk over to our IP to give her the copies of it & walk the rest over to our Social Service Adoption worker & then it's out of our hands. We should know 1 - 1 1/2 months later at which point we are in the game.
For now I am getting us ready slowly. I say "I" because Josh has no idea about packing & make sure everything we need is there, all he cares about is his games & 2 of his favourite stuffed animals & Sean is a last minute packer & so he doesn't understand why I am making lists of things to bring & why I worry about it now instead of waiting that we get a call to travel & then run around like chickens with our heads cut off to make sure everything is done & ready in 2 weeks. Well if I would be doing what he is proposing, we either go there with half of our stuff missing or he has to deal with me being so stressed that it would be like what Sean is calling "PMSing". As he doesn't want that & neither do I, he leaves me alone with my slow packing & revising of my lists.
No, it's not OCD, it's planning, organizing & being a mother to ensure everyone has what they need. You think that he would thank me when he is looking or needing something & then he asks me " you wouldn't happend to have.....?" & my answer is " yes, do you need it." No, no thanks here...... Yeh! I love the guy.
Anyway, enough rambling on. I will do another update once everything is done & sent to Social Services.
Malory
Saturday, January 12, 2008
The New Year is finally here and still nothing
Here we go again. It is now January 12 and we still have not met with our indendent practitioner( IP) for the review of the home study, still have not received the Interpol back even though Canada Post tracking system shows they received our package December 17, and we still have not met with our doctor to complete the medical portion.
We have an appointment with our IP on Monday January 14 in the morning and I hope this will go quickly & there will be no need to change anything else so it can be sent to Social Sercices (S.S.)right away. I had to cancel my appointment again with our doctor on Monday because the blood test results are still not in. I rescheduled for Friday Jan 18 & hopefully it will be in by then. I am also going to call the RCMP in Ottawa on Monday to inquire as to where they are at in the Interpol check. That would be nice to know. Once those three things are done, our dossier will be complete and ready to send to S.S.
I did a check yesterday on the timelines that we can expect a call. It goes like this.
1- Dossier sent to Social Services. (hope end of January)
2-S.S. send dossier to Children's Bridge (2-3 wks)
3- C.B send dossier to Foreign Affairs for notorization (3-4 wks)
4-F.A. send dossier to Kazak consulat in Ontario to translate (3-4 wks)
5-K.C send dossier to Kazakhstan to a staff liason who immediatly..
6- takes to Dept. of Education in Kazakhstan (3-4 wks)
7-D.E. send dossier to Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Astana (3-4 wks)
8- D.E & the M.F.A gives approval & send dossier to Ministry of Education in Karaganda. (our city of adoption)
9- Two weeks later the M.E issue the Letter of Inviation.
10-staff liason & Orphange will pre-select a child based on the criterias we gave them & sends our invitation to C.B
11- C.B contacts us that a child is available & offered to us to adopt.
12- Once we review the offer with the medical, we decide yes or no.
13- if Yes, we have 2 weeks to prepare ourselves to travel & we wait for our Visas to be issued. Once issued, WE GO......
14- If No, we wait again for another child to be offered.
So, with the time lines expected for each offices, from end of January to the time the Letter of Inviation is issued, we are looking at the second week of June (that is taking the 4 weeks per dept which is the maximun). It could be earlier. Then the time to pre-select a child & place the offer and the acceptance and the 2 week time to prepare to travel, it would be early July. If this is correct, it would be perfect . Josh would not have to miss any school. We would be back end of August & Josh would go back to school not missing more than a week or two perhaps.
That would be a perfect world wouldn't it? As we know that the world isn't perfect and life throws curve balls, we are prepared to leave earlier or later. It beats the timelines of China which we were told last week that if we would have stayed in the China program we would have perhaps been able to go in very late 2012 perhaps 2013...... I am so glad we got out of that never ending place...
Anyway, that is all for now. I will keep you posted as it moves along.
Have a nice weekend.
Malory, Sean & Joshua
We have an appointment with our IP on Monday January 14 in the morning and I hope this will go quickly & there will be no need to change anything else so it can be sent to Social Sercices (S.S.)right away. I had to cancel my appointment again with our doctor on Monday because the blood test results are still not in. I rescheduled for Friday Jan 18 & hopefully it will be in by then. I am also going to call the RCMP in Ottawa on Monday to inquire as to where they are at in the Interpol check. That would be nice to know. Once those three things are done, our dossier will be complete and ready to send to S.S.
I did a check yesterday on the timelines that we can expect a call. It goes like this.
1- Dossier sent to Social Services. (hope end of January)
2-S.S. send dossier to Children's Bridge (2-3 wks)
3- C.B send dossier to Foreign Affairs for notorization (3-4 wks)
4-F.A. send dossier to Kazak consulat in Ontario to translate (3-4 wks)
5-K.C send dossier to Kazakhstan to a staff liason who immediatly..
6- takes to Dept. of Education in Kazakhstan (3-4 wks)
7-D.E. send dossier to Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Astana (3-4 wks)
8- D.E & the M.F.A gives approval & send dossier to Ministry of Education in Karaganda. (our city of adoption)
9- Two weeks later the M.E issue the Letter of Inviation.
10-staff liason & Orphange will pre-select a child based on the criterias we gave them & sends our invitation to C.B
11- C.B contacts us that a child is available & offered to us to adopt.
12- Once we review the offer with the medical, we decide yes or no.
13- if Yes, we have 2 weeks to prepare ourselves to travel & we wait for our Visas to be issued. Once issued, WE GO......
14- If No, we wait again for another child to be offered.
So, with the time lines expected for each offices, from end of January to the time the Letter of Inviation is issued, we are looking at the second week of June (that is taking the 4 weeks per dept which is the maximun). It could be earlier. Then the time to pre-select a child & place the offer and the acceptance and the 2 week time to prepare to travel, it would be early July. If this is correct, it would be perfect . Josh would not have to miss any school. We would be back end of August & Josh would go back to school not missing more than a week or two perhaps.
That would be a perfect world wouldn't it? As we know that the world isn't perfect and life throws curve balls, we are prepared to leave earlier or later. It beats the timelines of China which we were told last week that if we would have stayed in the China program we would have perhaps been able to go in very late 2012 perhaps 2013...... I am so glad we got out of that never ending place...
Anyway, that is all for now. I will keep you posted as it moves along.
Have a nice weekend.
Malory, Sean & Joshua
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