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Wednesday, August 22, 2007

Krasnoyarsk and the referral process

We received some information from our agency yesterday about how the referral process works in Krasnoyarsk. First, the agency is able to register about 3-5 dossiers per month there (yay! ours was one of the first few to be registered!). Then the referral match is made in Russia and then sent to us. If we choose not to accept it, then we have to write a letter explaining why we are declining and then may wait several more months for a new referral. Evidentally, in the past, the agency received several referrals not matched with a particular family and they had more flexibility in matching the children. They also said writing the letter in case of declining the referral was a new procedure.
Our agency said that the referrals coming out soon would mostly be boys (since there are fewer girls available) and would probably have some health concerns (since the healthiest children are reserved for Russian adoptive parents). However, most children in Russian orphanages do have some medical diagnoses that do not really mean a whole lot or are easy to treat once in the U.S.

Please pray that God would make our daughter the first referral that we receive and that we would know at first sight that she is ours. Also, please pray that she would be "healthy" by American standards, even if she has a strange Russian diagnosis in her medical records.

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