Big Changes

Well, ALOT has happened over the last five and a half months!  Right after we finished all of the paperwork for DRC, got USCIS approval and all of our dossier documents ready to send, the US State Dept had a conference call to catch everyone up on the exit visa stoppage in the DRC.   We ended that call feeling very uncertain and called WACAP to see what ideas they had.  DRC has a law on the books that an adoptive family may only have 2 children in the home.  This has always been interpreted as it was meant for Congolese families and many American families with 3 children in the home already, have adopted.  Now the Congolese government is only approving adoptions for families that meet ALL of their requirements, including not more than two children in the home. :-(  Sadly, that took us out of that program (In our eyes).  WACAP thought they may issue us a letter of exception, if we chose to stay in the program or we could transfer to another program.  At that point we began to dual with the China program.  In July, we decided to officially transfer to the China program.  Sadly, this meant that we had to start ALL over again!  New home study agency, new paperwork, new documents and the list goes on and on and on.  We have just now finished our homestudy and today mailed our dossier documents to WACAP.  Next is our I-800A approval and getting our dossier translated into Chinese.  I'll be better about keeping you all up to date on our journey, now that we've found the path that we were meant to follow.  Until then..