Kazakhstan adoptions on hold!

Wow - apparently all Kazakhstan adoptions are temporarily (hopefully) on hold and any dossier that has not gone through the embassy or consulate yet, can't go through. Last year at this time we had collected most of our dossier and were in the process of putting it together to send to translation and then to the consulate, so we would have been out of luck.

My heart goes out to all of those who are in the paper chase process or who were not able to go to embassy review yet. Our agency is saying it is likely temporary, but that could mean a month or a year or longer...who knows?? The Kazakhstan government can do anything it wants.

There are so many children there - and in other countries - that need families and so many parents-to-be that need children. It just shouldn't be this hard.

China's waiting times are 2-3 years or more, Guatamala is slowing down or stopping, Russia is reaccrediting all of its agencies and the US has it's own mess of problems with adoption and the children and would-be parents are the ones who suffer - not the people who make all these rules or open and shut down the process for no good reasons.

I feel so bad for those just waiting to be parents who now don't know if their dreams will ever come true. I remember being in that position and it's an awful and unsettling feeling to say the least.

We are so lucky that we got Drew home when we did - he's only been home for three months and look what's happened in that time - it is scary to think that if we had been just 4-5 months behind where we were, who knows what would have happened. Already, in Taraz where Drew is from, court proceedures have changed and people are being left up in the air as to when they will go to court. Also, there's been new paperwork instituted that is delaying things. There have also been rulings about dates on dossier documents that can't be over a certain number of days old and people are doing their entire dossiers 2 or 3 times before they even get to Kazakhstan.

Why????

It just doesn't make any sense....and it makes me so sad and so thankful at the same time...