Approved :)

Journal Entry - May 28th, 2012

Our first government approval! The Ministry of Children and Youth Services has said they have no objection to us adopting. We have a letter of approval! Yippee! One down, many to go, but one down!

Now we can start working on finishing up our dossier. Most of the paperwork is already done, but there are some items that are needed for the dossier that we didn't do until we were approved by the Ministry.

A few more appointments, police checks and medical exams and we will have a complete dossier to submit.  

At the moment the Haitian Agency (IBESR) that handles adoption has closed for the summer. There are a lot of things going on in adoptions in Haiti and there is significant room for improvement. This break is intended to give Haiti time to sort out their adoption system, and implement rules that will make them Hague convention compliant.  I hope that Haiti can stay within their time guidelines, and that they actually begin to accept dossiers again in the fall.

Making babies this way is a lot of work....