Wednesday, we mailed our signatures to complete our homestudy to our agency, via Express Post. This morning, I called and asked them if they would please let me know when the completed homestudy (dossier) was mailed out to Kidslink. According to some red tape, it looked like the dossier *couldn't* go out until Monday or Tuesday. The intercountry worker asked me a few questions, which gave me the feeling that perhaps our dossier hadn't been completed yet.
Tonight when I came home and checked my email I was so excited to see this message:
Hi Justine,
The Purolator courier man just left the office with your dossier! It is on the way!!
Take care,
It was such an exhilerating moment!!!! And it was *so* wonderful to see how excited our agency was for us! They have worked so very fast to get things moving as quickly as possible; even working on Saturdays, Sundays, and evenings! Awesome!!
The irony of all this is I was concerned that when we were held up for those three weeks waiting for our social worker to contact us, that we wouldn't be able to get our dossier out to our intercountry agency, until the beginning of December. I knew that we would not get our file to Ethiopia until after Christmas.
It was supposed to take six weeks for the homestudy, plus two weeks for the sw to write it up, and then another week to go from sw to agency. Total of 9 weeks. But God is SO good and the whole thing was completed in 27 days (under 4 weeks)!!!
We are SO fortunate to live in BC. In our province, the homestudy is approved by the agency and that saves so much time!! In some provinces, parents have to wait up to 13 additional weeks, after the homestudy is completed, for the approval by the ministry!
Now I can believe our file will be in Ethiopia before the end of November!!! YEAH!!!
Oh, things are moving now.... *big smile*
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wow this is great news. things in ETH happen not that fast, i would not worry about any changes coming in just yet. There is every possibility you will have your referral soon-- then you will be left to ask yourself (as i am now) what do we do with all these kids??
sk
Isn't it such a great feeling of relief to finally kiss that home study good by and actually begin waiting?! I remember that feeling - and it was so amazing! Congrats guys and I hope the wait is very short until you know who your little girls are!
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