There has been big news in DRC adoptions over the past week. The US embassy in Kinshasa has put in place a new procedure requiring a mandatory 3-6 month wait period after I600 approval. Many adoptive families have been so very close to traveling to pick up their little ones and had the goal posts moved 3-6 months out. It's heart wrenching. However, this new process was put in place to ensure ETHICAL adoptions and to stop corruption and child trafficking. All for a great cause, so hard for those who thought they were so so close.
What does that mean for us? We don't know yet. B and I are NOT reconsidering DRC as the country we're adopting from, yet. It's possible things will change in the next few months / a year and the programs will change enough we cannot move forward, but I don't think it will get there. I don't think the program will get shut down. I believe things will get ironed out and adoptive families will start PUSHING their agencies and lawyers to MAKE SURE everything is ethical and documented prior to getting to the 3-6 month wait. I'm choosing to have hope that this will mean great things for DRC adoptions.
It probably means that the time from referral to brining our new child home will be longer than 6 months. It will be more like 9-12 months, and that sucks. We will have to see what happens to our time frame once we are ready for referral - and we're at least 2-3 months from that point.
More later :-) off to work for me.
~M
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