As part of the adoption application process – we needed to get quite a few official documents together, including birth certificates, marriage certificate, medical reports, employment reports, police good behaviour certificates, plus copies of passports and such. These documents were only considered valid for 12 months, so as a final part of the application process … [Read More »]
Archives for March 2009
Planning
We spent the weekend filling out forms from the Department of Immigration, applying for a visa for Andres to enter the country, and then Leanne spent a couple of hours this morning trying to pay the fees for the application. The confusing thing about the paperwork is that you cannot actually apply for a visa … [Read More »]
Andres
We had the meeting with our contracted adoption assessor (social worker) today who had the information pack from DoCS (sent over by the orphanage in Colombia) with the details of our son, Andres who is currently just over 5 months old. Having the photo makes it very real now – this is very exciting, we … [Read More »]
We are adopting!
I got a call from DoCS at around 2pm this afternoon informing us that we have received an allocation of a child to adopt from an orphanage in Colombia. All along we had been told 18 – 24 months from the time our application was approved by Colombia – which would make it mid-year at … [Read More »]
Blog catch-up
I’ve been pretty slack over the past few months with keeping my blog updated. I do tend to micro-blog in twitter quite a bit (see link and info in sidebar on the right), but that’s just quick updates on what I’m doing rather than lengthy discussions about topics. I have taken quite a lot of … [Read More »]