Saturday 9 August 2008

PANEL date!!!!

We got an email from Team Leader at our Local Authority the other day, can't remember exactly when - we are on holiday you know!! Anyway she said that following her meeting with our Social Worker that they had decided the Homestudy Report was great and we could be booked into Panel :-) She has booked us into the October one, as the Panel Chair is on her hols for the September one and Team Leader would prefer us to go before the Panel Chair as she is more experienced (ie she was there when we were approved for China!!) than the Vice Chair!! Its frustrating to miss a whole month (our LA only have one Panel a month) but there isn't a lot I can do about it!! Had a huge panic when I realised that the Panel date was the same day as we get back from Florida - but luckily we get back early in the morning so as long as we can have an afternoon appointment for Panel we should be fine :-) I've emailed Team Leader and asked her this, but tried to word it so that she doesn't put us back to November or anything!!!

Its great news and I'm so pleased that we are finally moving along :-) We first talked to our LA about changing countries in FEBRUARY!! So its great that we are now in sight of the finishing post of this part of the process! I'm not thinking about the slow drag through DCSF that we still have to endure just yet!!

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OUR ETHIOPIAN ADOPTION TIMELINE


25th May 2009 - See New Child again & Court Date

23rd May 2009 - Fly back to Ethiopia

26th March 2009 - Fly to Ethiopia :-)

3rd March 2009 - Dossier Arrived at Orphanage

26th February 2009 - Dossier sent to Ethiopia

22nd December 2008 - Dossier back at DCSF

28th November 2008 - Certificate of Eligibility ISSUED

6th October 2008 - PASSED Approval Panel

7th July 2008 - Homestudy Update Started

28th Feb 2008 - Told LA we wished to change country

OUR CHINA ADOPTION TIMELINE

Formally withdrew from the China Adoption Programme 17th July 2008

LID (Logged in Date) with CCAA 16th August 2007

Documents to China 10th August 2007

Passed Approval Panel 5th March 2007

Homestudy started 6th June 2006

First Contact with our LA 1st Jan 2006