News from Ethiopia seems generally encouraging at the present time. Last week 7 cases were approved in court and 4 cases received new court dates. In addition, four families successfully completed the visa process.
The court hearings will be late May for the first hearing and the first week in June for the second. Four families are considering referrals of babies but we haven’t heard their decisions yet.
We have several babies in the nursery who are paper-ready or nearly so, but we are waiting for the results of the PCR tests for HIV.
There are a number of families “on hold” on the waiting list for one reason or another. If those families come off “hold” it will affect families behind them on the list. But at this point, if nothing changes, the next referral of a baby boy will go to a family whose dossier went to Ethiopia in January of 2010. The next family to receive a baby girl referral has a dossier sent in July of 2009. There are actually only a few 2009 families left on the list.
We are happy to share this encouraging news with you.
Merrily and Susan H.
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