Well today marks one year of waiting for the call!! We have gone thru so much up to this point but nothing as scary as yesterday. We found out via a podcast today that
Tom DiFilipo, President of the Joint Council on International
Children's Services spoke about the news that
the Embassy of the Republic of Kazakhstan in the U.S. has stopped
forwarding dossiers to Kazakhstan. This is believed to be a
temporary situation while a review is conducted of the international
adoption process. Apparently the Kazakhstan Ambassador to the U.S.
put this new policy into place, and he and the Chief Consul at the
New York Consulate have temporarily returned to Kazakhstan.
Though on the podcast it was said that the New York Consulate is
still accepting dossiers, If dossiers are sent to the Consulate, they will stay there and will not be reviewed until this temporary suspension is lifted.
We also found out if your dossier is already in Kazakhstan, then your adoption is
not affected by this suspension. It only affects those families
whose dossiers have either not been sent to the Consulate, or those
families whose dossiers are currently at the Consulate.
So while this won't effect us we feel sorry for families that this will effect and hope this will be resolved quickly.
Well on a different note Suzie and Julie both asked what part of PA. Sandy and I live in, well we're just up I-79 North of Pittsburgh we live in Erie. Yep it's snowing here again, we're ready for some of that 65 degree heat Almaty has recently had. 70 degrees in Tampa and San Diego sounds great.! I've been in Florida before but never made it to Tampa. The pitures above are from my NAVY days in San Diego. My ship was stationed in Coronado in 1988-90 the above picture was taken just outside the Hotel Del Coronado and the other at the boarder of Mexico going into T.J.
Julie I see from your blog that Benjamin has been to Mission Beach. I lived on that beach every day (great Boogie boarding)!! I even did some work at the RED ONION night club and wonder if that old rollercoaster still there by the boardwalk? I loved San Diego and have fond memories of my time I lived there.
Well that's all for now we hope soon to post that we will be traveling.
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Yep - the roller coaster is still there. We don't ride it anymore, but when we first moved here we had to see a chiropractor after we did it was so bumpy! When and if we leave SD, we will cherish our memories here as well.
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