Mr Messy has just dragged me out of bed, where I was having a lovely, warm snuggly lie in. But I don't mind because it was to show me the letter from the DCSF saying they had received our paperwork safely from our Local Authority. Even though I already knew that our papers were safely in the hands of the DCSF, because I got anal and rang them lol, its fantastic to have it officially written down in writing :-)
BUT behind that letter was another letter!! This letter says that the DCSF have ISSUED our Certificate of Eligibility (the formal piece of paper we need to confirm we can adopt from overseas). They've issued it and sent everything to our Notary!!!!! I was expecting another week or so (being VERY optimistic) or month or so (being realistic) before this happened!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Our Notary reckons it takes him about 7-10 days to process everything before he returns it all to the DCSF and then they say it takes another week to get it all off to Ethiopia!!!! That means our papers could be sent to Ethiopia BEFORE Christmas!!!!!! WOW OMG and WOW!!!!!!!
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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
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
6 comments:
OMG, OMG, OMG!!!
Are families still getting referral quickly? What are the timings like once things are in Ethiopia (thought I'd have to wait much longer to ask that!)
Amazed and delighted!
K x
Thanks K :-)
Yes referrals are still happening very quickly for the most part! We have to make two trips to Ethiopia (first to confirm we want to adopt the child and apply for a court date and the second to attend court and get passport etc). This is a very new requirement and no one is quite sure how the timings will work, us and a couple of other families are the guinea pigs!! So to be honest I don't really know!!
Lots of love
Janet
xxx
Wow that is AMAZING!!! Well done the DCSF - that news is definitely worth getting dragged out of bed for!!! The notary sounds very efficient and experienced in adoptions from Ethiopia so fingers crossed everything will go smoothly. Maybe you could even have a referral before Xmas - wouldn't that be the best present EVER!
So excited for you,
love WL xx
Hi WL,
I'm just in such a tizzy!! I can't believe after all we've been through its finally all happening SO quickly!! Maybe just maybe we might be getting an early and very welcome Christmas pressie :-)
Lots of love
Janet
xxx
Congrats! Now aren't you glad Mr. Messy disturbed your lie in?:)
Hi Steffany,
It was a perfect surprise to wake up to :-) And yes it was worth losing my lie in for :-)
Love
Janet
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