Waiting!

Well we are officialling "Waiting"...Our file is in Russia at the Ministry of Education in Vladivostok. Now it is up to them to match us with a child and forward the childs info to our agency for us to review, forward to our doctor, and decide if we wish to persue the adoption. Once we notify the agency that we wish to proceed the Russians will extend an invitation for us to go to Russia for our first visit. We had hoped to hear something before Christmas, however we have not. Now we continue to wait until we hear from WACAP. Keep us in your thoughts and prayers. We know our son is out there waiting for us......

12/08/08 Update

Phone meeting with WACAP on Friday revealed that our Dossier was completed and being shipped to their Vlad office today! (Shipping will take 6 to 10 days) The bulk of the documents had been sent ahead for translation into Russian and only the hard copies of the Apostilled documents were needed to submit our Dossier to the Russians for matching with a child. What does this all mean? WACAP seems to think that we will have a refferal prior to Christmas! That should include pictures and medical information and any family history they may have. We will then have the med records reviewed by an adoption specialist (M.D.) here and review all of the other information to determine if we want to go to Russia to meet the child. Due to Russian Privacy concerns we will not be sharing any of the official refferal information. We want to make sure that this is the right child for us before setting any expectations. If this is not the right child we will ask for a new referral. Based on all of the information we have, we feel we will probably be travelling to Russia sometime Mid to late January of 2009.