Agency hired… we’re on our way
May. 2nd | Posted by Nicky
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Hiring an adoption agency is like retaining a lawyer… and the agreement is just as long! (5 pages.)
So following up on our application, we’ve signed a retainer with Kidslink, who will be our “federal” agency. Because there are only 2 adoption agencies in Canada that are licenced to work in Ethiopia, we actually hire 2 agencies. Kidslink will be the federal one. They send our paperwork back and forth to Ethiopia and run the foster home where our kids will stay between when they are matched with us and when we pick them up.
The second agency is the local agency. These are the people who give you parenting counselling, and who have the social worker visit your house and write up the reports. We know who we would like to hire, but we’re figuring out now if a 6 month residency rule will be getting in our way. The rule is in the Adoption Act regulations, and it states that a child can’t be placed with us until we’ve lived in BC for 6 months. Well, there is no way that the process will be all over and we’d have a kid home in 6 months from now, but the agency isn’t sure if they’re allowed to begin. So we’ll see what happens there. (I do NOT want to be set back 6 months, but rules are rules with this sort of thing.)
In any case, progress! We’ll keep you posted.
Congratulations! I am sure you’ll be very happy with Kids Link. We’re with them too and they’ve been fantastic. Very efficient, lots of time for newbie questions, and I’ve heard nothing but ringing endorsements about them.
I hope you have good luck with your local agency, and get your residency issues squared away without too much extra wait time.
And as for the multiple-page documents… you get used to them! The other night we each did a 9 page questionnaire about our childhoods, and a 4 page questionnaire about something else, and then there were the 16 dofferent documents we did with our social worker, and then we have a package of eleventeen pages of documents that need to be notarized… After awhile you get good at the paper pushing!
Hi guys! Congrats on joining with KidsLink! They are so great! let me know if you are interested in joining a chat group with some of us signed up with KL. Or maybe you already have! Just e-mail me and let me know!
Congrats!!