Referrals for the New Year!

Here is the latest update from our Vietnam Director:

Happy Thursday to everyone!! I hope everyone is doing well and taking care of themselves! We are delighted to announce that we received a referral this week of twin girls. They are 3 ½ months old and from Phu My orphanage in HCMC. This is the most recent orphanage we just started working with. The family is thrilled and couldn’t be happier! We are also happy to announce that we placed the sibling boys that were available last week. Congratulations to that family as well!!!!

3 Families are leaving this weekend for Vietnam!! YEAH! Our first group to travel in the New Year. They finally received approval from CIS and things seem to be moving again. We hope to have more families travel before the Tet holiday! All 3 families are adopting from orphanages in HCMC.

There is nothing new to report regarding the MOU. There is a quarterly scheduled meeting at the US Embassy on January 24, 2008 for all licensed adoption agencies. Our representative in Vietnam, Thuy, will be attending the meeting. We are not sure what the agenda will be or if the MOU will be discussed but I am sure it will be on everyone’s minds. So we will have to see what comes from that meeting in a couple of weeks!

We released over 75 families to begin preparing their dossier this month. So all of our offices are very busy going over the dossier preparation with the families. As we receive more referrals throughout the year, we will release more families to begin on their dossier. Families are asked to begin working on their dossier based on the sex and age child they are requesting. All families on the list up to family #92 regardless of what they have requested have been asked to begin on their dossier. Then after #92, families were asked based on the sex and age child they were requesting. We do receive many more boy referrals than girls so this is why we are having more boy families begin on their dossiers.