Archive for the 'Adoption' Category

We received an email today from the Australian Embassy in Chile requesting various documents and medical reports to complete the visa application. This was mostly just for our information – everything is taken care of between the adoption support agency and the orphanage, including arranging for health checks for Andres. We asked whether this tells [...]

We made our first big purchase today – put a cot on layby. We would have just paid for it and taken it home, but we had already measured the box they come in and discovered that there is simply no way it would fit in our car (Daihatsu Charade hatchback). So we arranged for [...]

As part of the adoption application process – we needed to get quite a few official documents together, including birth certificates, marriage certificate, medical reports, employment reports, police good behaviour certificates, plus copies of passports and such. These documents were only considered valid for 12 months, so as a final part of the application process [...]

We had the meeting with our contracted adoption assessor (social worker) today who had the information pack from DoCS (sent over by the orphanage in Colombia) with the details of our son, Andres who is currently just over 5 months old. Having the photo makes it very real now – this is very exciting, we [...]

I got a call from DoCS at around 2pm this afternoon informing us that we have received an allocation of a child to adopt from an orphanage in Colombia. All along we had been told 18 – 24 months from the time our application was approved by Colombia – which would make it mid-year at [...]