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