Adoption Update

Not much news, but we decided to email our coordinator over the weekend to see if there was ANY updates regarding our dossier. She called me immediately Monday morning and we spoke, but she decided to reply to our email as well since my husband, Will was not in on the phone conversation. I'm thinking we will not receive a referral until Spring/Summer 2015 :( Below is our update:

Dear Will and Amorie,

I spoke with Amorie by phone this morning, but since I did not get to speak to Will I thought I would follow up with an e-mail as well.

As we discussed by phone, we are still waiting to hear that IBESR has approved your application and matched you with a child.  Our last matches were in September.  These two families had registered their dossiers with IBESR in July 2013 and were officially matched in September 2014.  We have not received any matches since then and continue to have Silvia and Daniel check in with IBESR on a regular basis on the status of other dossiers and matches for our families.  We have two more families that submitted dossiers in 2013 that we anticipate will receive the next referrals and then 5 families(including you), who submitted dossier in 2014(registered with IBESR in March). 

Silvia and Daniel attended a meeting last week at the US embassy regarding adoptions in Haiti.  In attendance was the Consul General of the embassy, the IBESR director, several judiciary officials, directors of creches and legal representatives of agencies.  The embassy is meeting with IBESR on a monthly basis to provide technical guidance with implementation of the Hague and to encourage IBESR to deal with the cases already submitted.  IBESR has indicated that they wish to clear up all non-Hague cases first before processing their first Hague adoption, but they did not indicate how many pending cases they had overall.    

Silvia and Daniel will inform us when your case has been approved and when you have been matched with a child.

In regards to you US immigration approval, it expires in June 2015.  You will need to request your one time free extension 90 days prior to the June deadline which requires an update to your home study.  I would advise that you begin the update process in February so that you can submit the request for extension in April. 

Your fingerprints however expire in March, so you will need to contact USCIS in February either by e-mailing them or sending to them a request to renew your fingerprints with a copy of your current immigration approval.   

I will let you know as soon as I have any news regarding your case. 

I hope you both have a wonderful Thanksgiving.  I will be out of the office starting this Wednesday but will be back on Monday.  Let me know if you have any other questions or concerns and I will be happy to talk with you.