We had a webinair on Thursday with Gladney. They said there are basically 2 phases of approval. The first is by the adoption department of INHFA. It takes 8-10 weeks for approval. That is the phase that we are in right now. The second phase is to get it signed-off by the Secretary General (?) This was the position that is now filled by an interim secretary. Gladney said that the interim secretary does have the power to sign off on the adoptions. Things are actually moving more quickly, but they have dossiers that arrived there back in May, supposedly.
This is good news. This means that we don't have to wait for INHFA to hire a new person to fill this position. Our dossier arrived in Honduras on July 21st and our psychological addendum arrived sometime in September. Our case worker said it was presented to INHFA's adoption department sometime last week.
It looks like families in country now are still finalizing their adoptions, according to some blogs I read. I'm just so thankful that things are still moving along. Thanks for your support.
Saturday, October 8, 2011
Sunday, October 2, 2011
Waiting and waiting...
So our dossier has been in Honduras for a long while now. Gladney did ask all families for an addendum on our psychological report. Shortly after sending that to Gladney, we got some confusing news. Several important people at INHFA were dismissed. They are now "re-structuring". Some say this is a good thing, some say it is not and will delay adoptions indefinitely. What we do know, is that the adoption department in Honduras is approving dossiers, but there is no one to sign off on them, so that families can get on the wait list. Our dossier should be presented at anytime now, but once it's approved we will not be able to move forward until they hire the new person for this post.
It feels a lot like what happened with our Ethiopia experience. Once all the paperwork was done, we got the bad news that Ethiopia was practically coming to a halt with international adoption. The timing stinks.
I'm hoping that the Honduran government will quickly fill this position with a competent person who really cares about this children, so that adoptions can start up again.
It's been a year since we started this process. I am trying so hard to be patient. Everyday my daughter asks me when the baby's coming. Especially recently, since my brother's daughter was born last week.
It seems like it's taking forever. I'm trying to remember what a wise adoptive mother and friend told me when we were adopting our daughter and our dossier was sent to the Chinese consulate instead of the Vietnamese Consulate by the courier. She said that my baby was not ready yet. All of this government and political stuff is out of my hands. I cannot control this.
God, please help me to be patient.
It feels a lot like what happened with our Ethiopia experience. Once all the paperwork was done, we got the bad news that Ethiopia was practically coming to a halt with international adoption. The timing stinks.
I'm hoping that the Honduran government will quickly fill this position with a competent person who really cares about this children, so that adoptions can start up again.
It's been a year since we started this process. I am trying so hard to be patient. Everyday my daughter asks me when the baby's coming. Especially recently, since my brother's daughter was born last week.
It seems like it's taking forever. I'm trying to remember what a wise adoptive mother and friend told me when we were adopting our daughter and our dossier was sent to the Chinese consulate instead of the Vietnamese Consulate by the courier. She said that my baby was not ready yet. All of this government and political stuff is out of my hands. I cannot control this.
God, please help me to be patient.
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