Waiting to be on the Waitlist

Written by Kimberly Hartwell

Yes, we're waiting to be on the waitlist. Our dossier has been received, our paperwork looks great, the only thing holding us back from getting those special numbers are the home study review. We have reviewed it, OK'd it, signed the cover copy, and it's now been in our adoption agencies hands for a week. Any day now they should have completed reviewing it, will offer revisions back to our home study agency, then they will notarize it and send it back. Once the notarized originals are received by AGCI - we will get our numbers. In the last week I've seen one family get #19 for siblings, and another get #20 for siblings. So - - - I'm guessing we're going to be in the 20's for our siblings.

For those who aren't familiar with this # thing, some agencies and some countries do it differently. Our agency and Ethiopia allow for us to be on a waitlist where you can see the numbers move - and slowly see yourself move up the list. We have some friends in Denver that are adopting from Rwanda through a different agency, and there process is much different. Rwanda urrently has all of their paperwork and has since October. Once they review your paperwork (which hasn't been done yet), they will receive some sort of 'favorable' letter saying they can adopt through Rwanda, then they have 1 to 2 months to wait for a referral - with basic information - picture & age, if they 'accept', then they get the medical records and any history, have that reviewed, 'accept' again, and then work on court dates and travel time. I'm amazed at how different it is for each agency and country.

My hope is that we have our 'numbers' before Jay comes back from his trip to Ethiopia on the 25th.