1 year, 2 weeks and 1 day (but who’s counting) since we began our process to adopt, it is now legally official! As of yesterday evening at 7:30pm we finally have our completed Homestudy in hand, signed with approval granted from our practitioner. Out of the 30+ pages of Marris-Walker information overkill, the last and final page states;
As a certified adoption practitioner of Ontario, I hereby approve D. and J. for the trans-cultural, trans-racial international adoption of a healthy Vietnamese twin/sibling group under the age of 3.5 years.
Last night, I slept soundly for the first time in I don’t know when. With this stage completed, we are considered paper ready and on to the next and final task; Compiling our Dossier for Vietnam. A Dossier is a set of legal documents and adoption papers which will include our homestudy package, marriage license, financial statements, health certificates, medicals, passport copies, citizenship information and the list goes on and on. The package is huge and overwhelming but we are almost done and will be sending it off to our agency early next week. Once we here back from the ministry, our agency will have it all translated and sent overseas – this is called DTV (Dossier to Vietnam) Then we wait to be LID (Logged into the Vietnam Directory) Then we wait...and wait and wait some more until our agency gives us "THE CALL" - word that we have been ‘matched’ and that a proposal is on it’s way to us. So exciting...
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment