Changed Regions to Moscow City

After running into a road block on the Tver paperwork (not able to get medical records notarized by the doctor), we decied to change to the other region that CHI recommened for us.  We are excited to be moving forward on the Moscow City paperwork.  We only had two additonal documents that needed to be sent to CHI, which went out today via FedEx.  Yeah!

We have been told that once Moscow receives our paperwork, it will take only 1.5 to 2 months for a referral and then 1.5 to 2 months for the court date. 

We have a Region!

We have finally been assigned a region:  TVER.  It's about a 2 hour drive outside Moscow. 

Anna tried to email us over the Christmas holiday, but the email never went through.  So we did not find out until Wednesday, January 6th, while we were at the church dinner.  We were so excited.

We are now waiting for Anna (our coordinator) to send us our next steps.  Yesterday I learned about an additional 15-day waiting period for the Tver region.  I sent Anna an email asking questions about this 15-day waiting period.  Not sure if it's business days or calendar days.  That is a long time to wait.  This wait is in addition to the 10-day waiting period.

Adopting from Russia

We started our adoption process in April of 2009. As of today our paperwork is in Russia and we are waiting to be assigned to a region. Once we are assigned to a region we should get a referral for a child within 6 months. As we are hoping for a child between 3 and 5 it is possible that the process may be a little faster.