Okay.. I'm going to interrupt GB week to let everyone know what happens next with our adoption:
In about a week or two, we will hopefully get copies of Ayana's Birth Certificate listing us as her parents, and we will also get a copy of her new passport.
Then the medical forms will be sent from Nairobi to the orphanage and Ayana will be taken to a Canadian Immigration approved physician to have her medical done, and the medical will be sent back to Nairobi.
Once the Canadian High Commision recieves her medical, passport and birth certificate, her visa can be issued and we can GO AND GET HER!!! yay!!
There is a new bill that was passed, Bill C14, that states that any child, once they are legally adopted, becomes an AUTOMATIC permanent resident of Canada, just as if that child were born naturally from the mother in another country. This means that any parents adopting after December will be able to immediatly retreive their child from Ethiopia once the court case happens. Isn't that WONDERFUL???!! To have your child home 3 or 4 months sooner!! This will apply to all international adoptions, of course. Anyway, Ethiopia is still so freakin' fast it isn't as big of a deal, but for other countries where people are waiting a lot longer to bring their kids home it can make big difference.
Off to have lunch with Ellie and a great friend of mine, Miss Jean, and then we are going to the Glenbow Museum!
Cheers!
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Here's to it going super fast!! Get that baby home! Also hoping that C-14 gets the kinks worked out and other families don't have to wait so long for their kids to come home!
Hi Lisa,
Just a question for you with regard to C-14. If we don't have to wait for the visas anymore, what about the medicals? Aren't they also taking a number of 4-8 weeks after the court date? Will they still be needed?
Blessings, Justine
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Justine: I am not sure how it works, I tried to find the info on the net but it does not say anything about details as such. You're probably right, though, I guess. Although if you gave birth to a child in another country I don't believe you would have to have a medical done on the child in order to bring the child into the country.
According to our MP, we will still have the medical to do and that time varies by country and time of year. It will bypass the paperwork required now when the child comes home and the need for a country of birth passport. According to the MP and Minister Finley it have received royal assent and will HOPEFULLY come into effect this year. She did say that the kinks and country specific requirements have yet to be worked out.
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