Hoping

There are a lot of people hoping to get news from GLA today. Many have been in the process with their child(ren) for a long time. Some (like us) are hoping we are at the top of the list and will find out who our child is. This is what was posted on GLA's blog Friday...


 We are very excited!  We had 5 passports go into printing and they should be picked up today.  We have 4 dossiers in MOI (Immigration) presently and 2 more going in on Monday!  That means  we will have 11 children going home in the next few months!
IBESR had not signed any adoption approvals all month until yesterday.  I spoke to another orphanage director and she said IBESR gave her several signed dossiers.  Our lawyer is going today to see what they have done for our dossiers.  Hopefully, we will have some more good news before the end of the day.
We also heard that some crèches received their 2013 authorization forms.  We are checking on ours today too.  I am praying that they have studied our documents and that our approval is sitting there waiting for the lawyer to pick them up!  NOTICE, IBESR just called and said our license has been issued and we need to pick it up!  Hurray!  I am so happy!
I cannot tell you how happy I am that adoptions are moving along so quickly right now.  If we could just get the President’s office to sign dispensations (pardons) for those families not meeting the criteria of the 1974 law, I would be ecstatic! I just wonder if the president’s office is waiting for the new adoption law to pass and then they won’t have to sign the dispensations.  I did hear from another agency this week, that they thought the new law had passed the Senate.  If this is true, then we are really close to having a new Haitian adoption law!  Please pray that the law gets passed and in place very soon. 

Lots of good news!!! It's huge for us that IBESR let them know that their license has been issued. This means they can try to submit dossiers and we are REALLY REALLY REALLY hoping that the dossier they try to submit is ours. REALLY. It's hard to not get crazy hopeful.

We are also really hoping that the new adoption law truly does get passed. They don't have restrictions for families with biological children in the new law, so we wouldn't need to get special approval (dispensation) from the president to adopt. This step has taken WAY long for most families. Some over 6 months. So this would be amazing for us as well since it would make the process go somewhat faster.

We would definitely appreciate your prayers today and this week that we finally get some good news. We know God is always in control and we trust that this good news will come soon.