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