[britton]

Hi Everyone-

I haven't received a final response from my agency but earlier this week I received an email from them stating that if reaccreditation doesn't happen we'd be able to move forward since we're already registered with them.

Can someone please help me understand what the process is if the agency loses accreditation? For example, if already registered w/the MOE in a region, does the adoption still move forward? I'm a bit confused.

Also, if adoptions can move forward in these cases, how do you move forward? With help from the agency or are you on your own???

I'm so frustrated with this entire process!! URGH!!

Thanks for any information you can share with me.

Brit

[KimOH]

Britt -- I think the short answer is "nobody knows for sure."

As so many things in Russia, a lot of it depends on how the individual region interprets the law. I have heard that the "Supreme Court" issued a law saying that adoptions could continue if _______, but I haven't actually seen the law to know what the qualifiers are. And, it seems that there are broad interpretations of laws from region to region.

Anyway -- last time, some regions immediately stopped processing adoptions if the agency's accreditation lapsed. Some regions allowed adoptions to continue if the parent had already traveled on trip 1 and had officially committed to a specific child. Other regions allowed adoptions to continue if the parents' dossier was registered in the region (even if they hadn't traveled yet.) Other regions allowed agencies to send their clients through as "independent" adoptions?

In the case where independent adoptions took place, I think the agency still did almost all the same things for clients -- they just put it on different letterhead.

Good luck with your adoption. It is a scary and confusing time for prospective parents. I know because I lived through it last year.