New Agency

We have decided to go with a new agency all together. Our new agency is God's Waiting Children. We mailed out some necessary documents Friday and it will probably be about 2 weeks before we will know anything official on the adoption to report. As for now, please keep us in your thoughts and prayers.

Michelle

Adoption Agency Closed

Here is a link to a news report that was aired 9/10/07 about our agency.

http://abclocal.go.com/wabc/story?section=news&id=4870939

I thought some of you would like to view it so you can see first hand how corrupt our agency was. It's a heart breaking story about adoption.


Our adoption agency is finally shut down. They are working out a contract with Heritage Adoption Agency to finalize adoptions for clients that are stuck. That's about all we know for now. Our adoption coordinator, Kevin has told other clients that he's expecting things to be finalized early this week. I have heard some good things about Heritage and they have been in business for more than 16 years, but their Kazakhstan Adoption program is NEW. It is our understanding that AIP clients will be the first to experience their Kaz program. We're not sure what we are going to do at this point. We know if we go with another agency it will be another 6 months before we fly at the earliest. The thought of waiting another 6 months is abolutely killing me, but it may be our only SAFE option. We'll let eveyone know what we decide to do.

Hugs,
Michelle

Still Nothing to Report!

Still no new information to report. Just waiting! We will let everyone know the minute we get any new information. Please keep us in your thoughts and prayers.

Nothing New to Tell

Quick Update.......Haven't heard anything new from our agency Adoption International Program (AIP). They were out of the office last week and should be back tomorrow. We have requested our money back from them, because it looks like they may not be able to help us proceed with our adoption. We're not sure what our next step will be at this point. We will hopefully know something before the end of the week. We will post an update as soon as we know something.

Keep us in your thought and prayers.

Still Waiting

Just wanted to give an update.......I spoke with our adoption agency tonight. He doesn't know what the delay is with our LOI. Our dossier was received in Kazakhstan in the early part of May. We should of received our LOI over a week ago, but he says he should get it any day now. They say this is the hardest part of the whole process, sitting and waiting. They call these labor pains. I never really felt labor pains with Cody, so I can truely say this is more painful than labor. LOL

I'll post again as soon as we hear something. Please keep us in your thoughts and prayers.

Love,

Michelle

Next Step in Process

We were instructed to send our visa applications out last Thursday. It can take up to 2 weeks to get our visa's. Since the visa is only good for 90 days, we are expecting to travel before the end of June. Once our agency receives our letter of invitation (LOI), they will let us know to get our flights scheduled and off we'll go. We hopefully will hear from them sometime within the next 10 days. We'll let everyone know as soon as we know something.

Love,
Michelle

Done with 2nd Home Study

We are now done with our second home study. Thank you to BBAS (Building Blocks Adoption Services) for completing our home study as quick as you did and for understanding our frustrations.

We are anticipating on flying by the end of May. This has been a very long journey that some times seems as though it will never end, but we know when we see our daughter/son for the first time it will all be well worth it.

Our son Cody has been so patient and understanding during all of this and is celebrating his 11th Birthday today. Happy Birthday! CODY. We love you more than you'll ever know.

We will get a better idea of our flying dates when we receive our LOI (Letter of Invitation) from Kazakhstan. We'll let everyone know then.

Michelle Meenach