Great news! Our social worker called on Wednesday to tell me that she completed our home study report. This is happy news. The home study report was the last remaining piece of our dossier packet that was needed. We were expecting that the entire packet was going to have to be sent to our US agency (Holt) via regular mail to be approved but some good news is that the guy in charge of the Philippines program was recently in Manila and he was able to see the packet himself. So now the home study report only needs to be reviewed and approved via email before it can be submitted to the Philippines government on our behalf. This will save time.
It is possible that our dossier will be approved and submitted to ICAB (Inter-Country Adoption Board of the Philippines) within a few weeks. Once submitted, we are told it takes 2-3 months for ICAB to approve us and add us to their list of approved applicants. Information about us then gets circulated to social welfare offices and children's homes all over the country. At that point we'll officially be "waiting for a match." Exciting!
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Things are getting very exciting!! Onward toward grandparenthood for us! Just today while perusing in a book store I read in a book by Karen Kingsbury about the "miracle of adoption".
Yippee!! Congratulations! One step further! Does this put you in the second trimester of your elephant gestation?
Hooray!!! Love you guys!
So exciting!!!
I think a congratulations is in order! Every step is huge in this process. Love and blessings to you two.
can't wait to see the little one(s) that are waiting for you!
love
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