Archives for 2012

I spent the morning in at the Dept of Immigration in the city, paying for the visa application that will be sent to Chile. It’s a little confusing as to where to go – but I finally worked out that first you line up at the counters near the main entrance, where you eventually get … [Read More »]

We finally managed to communicate with the lady from our adoption support agency this afternoon. She informed us that despite the allocation happening so quickly, we would need to update all of our supporting documentation for our original application – something we were hoping to avoid doing. Most of the documents are only considered valid … [Read More »]

After a long, long wait of something like 50 hours (yes, we were counting!), we finally got to meet with our contracted adoption assessor (social worker) late this afternoon to go through the information from DoCS with the details of our daughter. Nicol is 6 months old and is completely gorgeous. Note the Spanish spelling … [Read More »]

We have a daughter! Before I go on, let me tell you about the events just before we found out … The staff at Intercountry Adoptions (FaCS / DoCS / whatever they are called this month), sent out a “touchy-feely” email last week to all families currently awaiting allocation. They were talking about the long … [Read More »]