Saturday, June 12, 2010
Citizenship Extension letter sent today....
Well the day started with a trip to the airport to greet baby Van with his parents....I love airports, the excitement of departures and arrivals....it was very happy to see that this long journey ended positively for one family and offers lots of cautious hope for me... so I was very happy for them. There were 3 other adoptive families there and all with little boys!!.......The rest of the day was a bit lazy, part rain, part sunshine, an afternoon nap and then to writing my letter to citizenship and immigration Canada asking for an extension on Part II for my baby's citizenship. Just walked to the mailbox to mail the letter and sent it off with a little prayer!.....Anyhow, as others have reported, our agency director left for Vietnam today and will be there for three weeks. Hopefully during these weeks there may be some news, and of course the infinite hope is that it is good news and not more bad news........in other news, I got an email inviting me to a conference being held in a city in north eastern Italy, to both make a presentation, as well as possibly exhibit some of my artwork.....very exciting but just as I got excited I also realized I could not so easily say yes at the moment..... it is so very hard to plan for with not knowing how the adoption journey will unfold....the conference is at the end of April 2011 and I'd love to go....However will have to wait and see.....I think this is the hardest part of the adoption journey for me right now. (as I know it is for others too)...with the earlier news that I should have had a referral by the end of February, I was planning on possibly travelling in the summer, and then being on parental leave in the fall, but have had to readjust my work world....I work on research contracts and teaching and artwork sales etc...but my work world while stable, requires some juggling as it isn't a 9-5 job that I will just leave etc....so this has contributed to some stress especially with having such wide changes in what I was told to expect....as one friend said, I have always been good at juggling various hats, so what's another one thrown in the mix!!...I guess most of the other hats I'm already familiar with them and know what to expect, but the adoption hat is a new one and while I have thrown it in the air, it has not come down yet in any sort of familiar pattern....sooooooo as B.'s blog says....I continue to wish, wonder, and wait......
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I just spent 3 months in Vung Tau waiting for my daughter's paperwork to be completed. There hasn't been a new baby arrive in VT3 since mid-Dec 2009, and all babies there have been proposed. VT1 works with an agency in France as well as our agency. I visited Tra Vinh at the beginning of March, and all babies then had been proposed. Our agency works with many other places as well, but I have no idea what they are like. The babies are available to us as they arrive at the gates of the orphanages. That is out of everyone's control.
ReplyDeleteI know this doesn't make the wait any easier, but I always had faith that our agency was not involved in any illegal trading of babies, as happens in other places. Hang in there - it will happen. I look forward to celebrating with you.
Hi Catherine, thanks for your message and again welcome home!...I did have a question...in one of your earlier posts you mentioned the number of children in Vung tau 3 etc..... and that they were going to be proposed to Canada....?? well from my understanding since January there were only about 5 proposal through TDH? so while I can appreciate that there were no new babies...who did the babies that were there get proposed to? And then my second question is, if there aren't babies then it isn't a political question??....why are we all lined up to adopt if there aren't babies available??... thanks for any additional information you might have, esp. regarding who received the referrals of the children at vung tau 3?
ReplyDeleteJust wanted to add...I too have never questioned the integrity of the agency in regards to illegal trading of babies etc...however the communication with those of us waiting could be improved. This is the first that I am hearing that there have been no new babies dropped off since mid December to vung tau 3? That detail can help explain the mystery of why things have slowed down?...etc.....anyhow again looking forward to finding out where those babies at vung tau 3 now, are going....
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