Hurdle Perhaps Cleared....

Good news perhaps - that we can get the home study transfered to the letterhead of the partner agency - the one that IS Hague accredited and attach their accreditation information. In total, we are told to tack on an additional 4-5 months to travel (now, I would say late fall 2009) with all the changes and the slow down in processing dossiers.

Keep sending positive thoughts....

Hurdle or Road Block?

I guess it's the way we look at the latest news. We choose hurdle. What other choice do we have? In a nutshell - the very first step of any adoption process is the Home Study. A long process that is done by an agency. Now, the Kazakhstan embassy is stating that all Kaz home study's must be completed by a 'Hague Accredited' agency. This requirement is a huge issue, in that our agency is not Hague accredited. With that, the agency that is partners with our Home Study agency IS Hague accredited. We will need to see if we can simply 'transfer' our Home Study - in lieu of going through this all over again. We are heavy hearted, and need to keep focused. I suspect this is one of many 'hurdles' that will be thrown our way.

We are now in week 6 of translation. It is my hope to get this home study issue resolved and keep things moving.

Kaz has clearly stated that they want to slow international adoptions down significantly. Please pray this isn't a future forecast of 'closing.'