Ch Ch Ch Changes...

There have been so many changes in the adoption process since our Dossier was submitted to our agency in November 2004. A week after we learned that we were number one on the infant boy list, everything ground to a halt. The MOE stopped issuing the databank letters on December 7 to all agencies that are not currently accredited. Our agency's accreditation expired in September and they have applied for reaccreditation, but due to new laws, no agency has been reaccredited since August of 2004. Some regions are continuing to work with our agency despite the accreditation issues and some are not. It is at the discretion of the local MOE. Then the Duma passed new laws in late December, changing the required time that a child is to be on the National Registry. Previously a child was required to spend 1 month on the Local Registry, two months on the Regional Registry and three months on the National Registry. Therefore making the youngest age possible, at time of referral, six months. With the new law stating that all children must be on the National Registry for a minimum of six months the youngest available referral is now nine months. The big pain now is that all of the children that were about to come off of the registry – and could have been referred to us – are all being required to spend another three months on the registry. So we continue to wait.

In the grand scheme of life this is not a lot of time, three months. It’s just really frustrating that we were RIGHT THERE! J and I were all primed to meet our little one before Christmas. We even got so giddy that we started working on the nursery over Thanksgiving. As a couple that has suffered from IF, and never had a positive pregnancy test, we are both really gun-shy about doing anything too early. However, we thought that we would be meeting our child in the very near future and we wanted their room to be all ready for them should things move at a breakneck pace. In retrospect, what a laugh! We have been number one on the infant boy list now for well over two months, and we have not seen one referral.

I know, I know. All in God's time. I just wish that he would hurry up a little bit.