Today we had a phone meeting with the International Adoption representative from Gladney. All in all, it went very well but we learned one very important lesson - everyone in the adoption process has got to get paid! Literally everything we do will cost us something. I sneezed on the call, and I think it cost me 50 bucks.
But on a serious note, the meeting gave us a pretty good idea of what to expect during this process and about how long it will take. The most important piece of info was that the earliest we would expect to get our baby would be late 2008. It depends a lot on how long it takes us to complete certain steps in the process, which we will get in to more detail in future posts as we find out more about them.
One other piece of news we can share is that it looks like Russia is in the lead in our Baby Olympics.
- China is overwhelmed with applications and is pretty backed up
- The Vietnam program is not accepting applications because it took on the overflow of applicants once China got backed up
- Ukraine has instituted a new restriction that only allows 2 applicants per agency per month, so that is now a long wait
- Kazakhstan.....well, it's Kazakhstan. Not sure we want our kid to see the movie Borat some day and start asking too many weird questions! But no really, on a serious note, Gladney has just recently started this program and they literally have only matched up 1 child so far with a couple. That's kind of a short track record for us.
- The one thing about Russia is that the program is still needing re-accreditation from 1 more Russian agency before it can get back on track. So Gladney does have about 20-30 families in ahead of us, but hopefully the approval comes soon and the other families get matched very quickly.
More to post later as we start filling out all the forms.
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