FRUSTRATION City...

Here is an example of WHY adopting from Haiti takes soooo long! (this is a post from an orphanage director describing -another change- to the Haitian adoption process.......the story of OUR adoption has had *stuff* like this with each step :(

HI everyone,

I am posting a message from Dixie which is located on the gla website:

UPDATE April 26, 2007

We are unable to give new proposals as quickly as we always have done them. We
used to give a proposal to a family within 1 month of their dossier arriving in Haiti. Today, it is taking 3 to 5 months for a proposal. Due to some delays with adoptions, we have not been able to send children to their forever families for a couple months. This means that we have no beds to take new children into the orphanage. We have to turn them away.

We have 32 children waiting for passports. The Ministry of Interior, responsible
for approving the passports, has added a step in the process. They did not tell
anyone that they were adding this step; however, no adoption passports have been
approved since January. Finally in early April, we were told that the lawyer needs to fill out a form. They have since changed their mind, and now anyone from the
orphanage can go to the Ministry of Interior and fill out this special form asking
for the child's passport.

The form is very long, asking for a lot of information about each adoptive parent.
LaDawn spent one whole day this week just finding the information for the forms, so
that Terriot can go and fill them out. Of course, when he arrived with 32 forms, they would not receive him and gave him an appointment for Friday, the 27th. They told him they could not do all of them in one day, and he would need to come back three days next week to get them all filled out. They will not give us the forms so we can fill them out in advance. Rather, we must fill them out sitting with the person in charge of doing the form.

We are praying that once we have filled out and submitted these forms, that
the passports will be approved quickly and we can get some children home and beds
opened up!

Parquet is better, but still not going quite as smoothly as we would like. We have
heard that they are adding lawyers (commissioners) to approve the dossiers. They
added one person already and immediately we received a dossier that said the
parents could not adopt because of a problem! It was sent back to Parquet and a
commissioner that had been there longer fixed it. However, we fear there might be
more problems until the new Haitian Adoption Law is legalized.

Now, having said all of the above, we did take in 4 children this week. Two are
newborn babies that we felt needed to be taken in now. Please pray with us that we
can get passports quickly and children out of Haiti to their forever families. Pray that we can find beds for the children coming in to the orphanage. For those of you
waiting for a proposal, I look at your dossiers every day. I have not forgotten any of you! Hopefully, I can start giving out some proposals in the next week or two.

And Life in Haiti goes on...

THIS JUST FRYS ME! I'm on one at the moment so I will leave it at that!