Norman Adoption Blog

Unlike my meeting with Betti yesterday, I had been looking forward to our phone meeting with Cindy from Orphans Overseas all week. Over the last couple of weeks since we have been reading and collecting our information, I have accumulated a list of questions I needed to ask them. Cindy has been assigned to us and will be calling once a week to answer any questions and to talk to us about our progress.

I won’t bother you with the questions we asked or the little details we learned about the paperwork and requirements we need to meet. But let me real quick just tell you some interesting things we learned:

• Their first couple is in Vietnam right now picking up their child. They had to wait 4 months after the dossier was sent overseas before they received their referral. Then after that they had to wait a max of 6 weeks (Cindy doesn’t know for sure how long they waited…between 2- 6 weeks after) to travel there. The child at referral was 2 months old.
• Regarding the health of the child- they have yet had any cases where they discover a child with HIV. They are checked before leaving Vietnam for HIV, TB and Hepatitis. We will not be given much or any type of medical history, just because they do not know it.
• We will not be given a photo of the child at the referral. They will provide age, reason for being an orphan, size and other info that they have already collected at the orphanage.
• Spanking issue- they only asked about that issue for their own screening. The dossier does not require that information and it probably will not matter. However, we just need to see if Betti will or will not need to include that in her home study report that will be sent overseas.