20 months and 5 days . . .

Another month has come and gone with no word on when our agency expects to receive their next list of waiting children who will become apart of their special needs pilot program, “United in Hope”. We continue to hope and pray that it will come soon. At times, it might seem trivial and even selfish on our part to wish for this to come in now, especially with everything else that is going on in China with last week’s earthquake, but nevertheless, it is a wish that we pray will come true soon. We truly feel for the people of China and ask that you continue to keep them in your thoughts and prayers. We will continue to do what we can on our end to bring our file into compliance with Hague. The implementation of Hague has added a few new steps to the process, but all are manageable. We are hoping to have our home study update done this month, as well as request new fingerprint appointments for us to be re-fingerprinted for the I-800 Form, and we also will need to have our physicals updated and request child abuse and neglect letters from each state/country we have lived since the age of 18 years. Like I said, all is doable and we hope to have most, if not all, accomplished even before we receive our referral, thus facilitating only more waiting time on the part of the CCAA. Keep your fingers crossed that all goes according to plan.