It's Out of Our Hands....

I dropped the dossier off at UPS today. Yikes! It's such a crazy feeling. It's scheduled to arrive at OAA Tuesday afternoon. Please pray that all of our forms look good and that they can send it off to be translated immediatley!!

I also wanted to share an email that we received from our agency this week... could mean a delay in the process....

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Dear Kazakhstan Families,

I have received word from one of our contacts in Kazakhstan that currently the Ministry of Education has requested from all regional Department of Education’s an accounting of post placement reports. The facilitator staff in the regions has heard from the regional Department of Education staff that there are many post placement reports missing from each of the regions we have heard from. The review is still in process, so this is preliminary information. Many of the missing post placement reports are reportedly from independent adoptions. Since the government of Kazakhstan does not officially recognize agencies through a registration or accreditation process, tracking post placement reports is difficult. In the past, there was less accountability through agencies then there is now.

At this point, the above information is confirmed through the staff in Kazakhstan. What we do not know, but there are rumors regarding, is the consequences of missing post placement reports. At this point, the rumor is that the regions will stop providing referrals until the missing post placements are received. This would be done regionally. They would still be processing dossiers through the process, but dossiers would be waiting in their assigned region. Again, these are rumors. There has been no official information on the consequences of missing post placement reports
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We're praying this doesn't cause any delays, but it very well could... For those who don't know what "Post-Placement Reports" are, they're the updates adoptive parents are required to send back to Kaz once they return home with their children... Currently, adoptive families are required to send reports written by their social worker 6, 12, 24, and 36 months post adoption and yearly parent written reports after that until the child turns 18! So the paperwork really doesn't end til the child is in college :) Unfortunately, some families don't follow through with their duties once they get the child home and it affects everyone else who comes along after them.

Please continue to pray for our patience. And more importantly, please pray that our daughter is loved and protected while her parents are on the other side of the globe.

Many Blessings,
Amy