Monday, January 28, 2013
New Adoption Info from GLA
26 January 2012
This month IBESR named the agencies they will allow to adopt from Haiti and the adoption quotas they would allow for each country. The United States are allow 240 adoptions per year divided between 19 agencies which means 1 dossier submitted per month. I suppose if 12 dossiers from the agency are given the first month, then that is all they can do for the whole year! 240 dossier for the USA is not a lot. The Netherlands is given the quota of 20. I have not heard yet for the other countries who have license. They are being told as they go in to pick up their authorization certificates from IBESR. I posted on my blog http://godslittlestangelsinhaiti.org/lifegoeson the full list of accepted American agencies and the ones GLA has contracts with. The agencies were told they would be allowed to turn in dossiers starting 4 of February.
IBESR sent out a notice that they would start accepting dossiers but the creches that I have contact with tell me that none of their dossiers have been accepted. We have tried twice to put in dossiers and both times have been told that they are not accepting dossiers yet. Social Services is just now studying our creche applications that we put together back in September. After they study them, then they will start issuing our yearly certificates.
I will keep you informed when we hear more from IBESR.
*This was just posted on our orphanages website today. In a way I'm happy to just know that they can't submit anyone until Feb. 4 cuz then I'm not super hopeful every single day that it might be "THE DAY" and I can just go about this week without hope. This new policy would be so sad for kids waiting for families and families waiting for kids. I know of many families waiting to find out who their child is and GLA has SO many kids waiting for a family. :( Hard to understand.
Our adoption worker is in Haiti this week, so we are hoping to learn more. Please pray we can get some answers and know for sure who our child is soon. Thank you.
This month IBESR named the agencies they will allow to adopt from Haiti and the adoption quotas they would allow for each country. The United States are allow 240 adoptions per year divided between 19 agencies which means 1 dossier submitted per month. I suppose if 12 dossiers from the agency are given the first month, then that is all they can do for the whole year! 240 dossier for the USA is not a lot. The Netherlands is given the quota of 20. I have not heard yet for the other countries who have license. They are being told as they go in to pick up their authorization certificates from IBESR. I posted on my blog http://godslittlestangelsinhaiti.org/lifegoeson the full list of accepted American agencies and the ones GLA has contracts with. The agencies were told they would be allowed to turn in dossiers starting 4 of February.
IBESR sent out a notice that they would start accepting dossiers but the creches that I have contact with tell me that none of their dossiers have been accepted. We have tried twice to put in dossiers and both times have been told that they are not accepting dossiers yet. Social Services is just now studying our creche applications that we put together back in September. After they study them, then they will start issuing our yearly certificates.
I will keep you informed when we hear more from IBESR.
*This was just posted on our orphanages website today. In a way I'm happy to just know that they can't submit anyone until Feb. 4 cuz then I'm not super hopeful every single day that it might be "THE DAY" and I can just go about this week without hope. This new policy would be so sad for kids waiting for families and families waiting for kids. I know of many families waiting to find out who their child is and GLA has SO many kids waiting for a family. :( Hard to understand.
Our adoption worker is in Haiti this week, so we are hoping to learn more. Please pray we can get some answers and know for sure who our child is soon. Thank you.
Tuesday, January 22, 2013
Fantasy Bachelor League
Due to the insane amount of Fantasy Football speak that went on in my house and my friend's homes these past couple months, we decided to make The Bachelor a little more interesting this year.
We decided to have people choose their top five and also choose who they think will win.
I am going to come up with some sort of prize (probably just something fun and silly) to give to the winner(s) who choose the most girls in the final five and the lucky winner/bride.
There is still time if you want to start something yourself.
I highly recommend it. It makes watching even more fun. Even when you accidentaly put the wrong lady as your chosen winner because you are terrible with names. Not that I would know anything about this.
My top 5:
Amanda
Lesley
Desiree
Kristy
AshLee
Winner:
Amanda (who actually should have been AshLee, but again, the name thing. I thought this may work to my advantage and maybe Amanda would end up winning, but seeing how much people don't seem to like her probably doesn't work in my favor. But here's to hoping).
So....who's your choice for the final lady?
Sunday, January 20, 2013
Back from a week in Haiti.
A week is Haiti always brings about a huge range of emotions.
Joy. Sadness. Frustration. Confusion. Amazement. Devastation.
We had a great team this trip. Everyone learned and experienced a lot.
We received some GREAT news while I was gone.
Bethany was chosen as an agency to work in Haiti. This means we can continue with our adoption process in Haiti. There was much celebrating both here and in Haiti. So happy.
So now we wait to know who our child is.
Can't. Even. Wait.
Friday, January 4, 2013
Hope
This was an update from our adoption agency today. I had actually hear rumors of this yesterday, but we didn't get confirmation until today.
Hello Haiti families and Happy 2013!
On January 2, USCIS posted this message on their website:
"Adoption Information: Haiti
Haiti’s adoption authority, the Institut du Bien-être Social et de Recherches(IBESR), has informed the U.S. Government that they are now accepting new adoption applications for Haitian children who were either documented as orphans before January 12, 2010, or who have been relinquished by their birth parent(s) since the earthquake. The U.S. Embassy in Port-au-Prince has also resumed normal visa processing."
This is the link to the statement:
http://www.uscis.gov/portal/site/uscis/menuitem.5af9bb95919f35e66f614176543f6d1a/?vgnextoid=93f463fc4cbfb310VgnVCM100000082ca60aRCRD&vgnextchannel=ecab18a1f8b73210VgnVCM100000082ca60aRCRD
We have also been hearing that Haiti will announce a list of adoption agencies that will be accredited to work in Haiti on January 10, 2013.
As we hear more information about the process of adopting in Haiti and about Bethany's accreditation, we will send out portal messages to let you know.
If you have further questions, please don't hesitate to contact your branch worker or your Global worker.
Have a great day, and best wishes in the new year!
The Bethany Haiti team
SO...what does this mean exactly? Well it means that IBESR is open to accepting referrals again. We don't know what the new procedures are yet. We don't know if there even are new procedures.
We also don't know if they chose Bethany as one of their accredited adoption agencies to work in Haiti yet, but we have Faith that they will choose Bethany so we can move forward.
If they choose Bethany this means they should start giving families referrals of children again. This is HUGE. We are hoping and praying that this is true and we once again have HOPE.
We would really appreciate your prayers for good news in the next week. January 10 can't come soon enough!!!
Hello Haiti families and Happy 2013!
On January 2, USCIS posted this message on their website:
"Adoption Information: Haiti
Haiti’s adoption authority, the Institut du Bien-être Social et de Recherches(IBESR), has informed the U.S. Government that they are now accepting new adoption applications for Haitian children who were either documented as orphans before January 12, 2010, or who have been relinquished by their birth parent(s) since the earthquake. The U.S. Embassy in Port-au-Prince has also resumed normal visa processing."
This is the link to the statement:
http://www.uscis.gov/portal/site/uscis/menuitem.5af9bb95919f35e66f614176543f6d1a/?vgnextoid=93f463fc4cbfb310VgnVCM100000082ca60aRCRD&vgnextchannel=ecab18a1f8b73210VgnVCM100000082ca60aRCRD
We have also been hearing that Haiti will announce a list of adoption agencies that will be accredited to work in Haiti on January 10, 2013.
As we hear more information about the process of adopting in Haiti and about Bethany's accreditation, we will send out portal messages to let you know.
If you have further questions, please don't hesitate to contact your branch worker or your Global worker.
Have a great day, and best wishes in the new year!
The Bethany Haiti team
SO...what does this mean exactly? Well it means that IBESR is open to accepting referrals again. We don't know what the new procedures are yet. We don't know if there even are new procedures.
We also don't know if they chose Bethany as one of their accredited adoption agencies to work in Haiti yet, but we have Faith that they will choose Bethany so we can move forward.
If they choose Bethany this means they should start giving families referrals of children again. This is HUGE. We are hoping and praying that this is true and we once again have HOPE.
We would really appreciate your prayers for good news in the next week. January 10 can't come soon enough!!!
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