I'm Clearly an Eager Beaver

After downloading and reading all of the guides and forms required for immigration it turns out I can't send them in until we are approved by the province as adoptive parents.  I guess I was just rushing ahead, but you can understand why!  I want to be a mum!   On the plus side, I think we acutally only have to fill out two of the 7 forms for the sponsor part of the application.  I am the primary sponsor, Mike is the co-signer, Kid is the primary applicant.  I have to keep that in mind while reading the forms or I start to fill in my information where no information is required since it is unknown who Kid is.

I was speaking to the lady in charge of international adoption applications for the province and asking her about training programs.  Most places require the PRIDE program but NS has made a new International Adoption training program.  It was first made because China required this training for their applicants as it had more information specific to international issues as well as standard adpotive family issues.  The feedback from the fall session was great and now the province has decided to make it manadatory for all international adoptions.  The big difference between China and Russia in regards to applications is that China requires the parents to complete this course before they can apply whereas she was fairly certain Russia didn't have that stipulation.  The province simply requires it is complete before the child comes home.  She is going to get back to me with a for sure on that but if her inclinations are the case than that is one less hold up for us since we can go ahead with the home study and not worry about having to first wait for the next training session!  This will also help pass the wait time since it can be done in between steps.

In the meantime I keep filling out forms and saving them for when it is time.  I keep emailing and calling several different contacts to ensure I am not missing anything.  I feel like I'm going to annoy some people with the amount of questions I have!