I talked with our coordinator and they received our dossier and will be mailing it off to Bulgaria probably by Friday. Then it will take 8 days to get to Bulgaria. Once the agency in Bulgaria gets it they will translate it and that should take 2 weeks is what we are being told.
Our lawyer there then adds her paperwork and submits it to MOJ (ministry of justice). They will then get to our dossier and register it within 4-6 weeks. So with that time line we are actually looking at October, not September, for our dossier to be put in line with other adoptive families. Remember also that most adoptive families are not American, they are European. So we have Americans, Canadians and Europeans now adopting from Bulgaria. It was mainly Europeans before. Only something like 100 families have adopted from Bulgaria these past couple of years.
The director of MOJ is new since last year and things are moving better with children being adopted so now American agencies are accepting applications for Bulgaria again. TOL, whom we are going through, never stopped working with Bulgaria so they know the ins and outs of Bulgaria, which is reassuring. We will let you know for sure when our dossier leaves for Bulgaria.
Keep us in your prayers, our son is probably born now. Pray for his safety and that he is receiving the hugs we can't give him. Thank you.
2 comments:
You're website is great! Hopefully we get the same travel dates and we can meet eachother! What an exciting journey all of this is... Make sure you let us know how everything progresses.
Hi, I just found your blog link on FRUA. We are contemplating adopting from Bulgaria, with TOL. We have adopted from Russia in 2005. Ready to go for it again but liked the travel times for Bulgaria. I have bookmarked your blog. Thank you for sharing...hope you have your sweet boy home soon.
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