Friday, August 29, 2008

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Citizenship and Immigration Canada

Today I phoned Citizenship and Immigration Canada to withdraw my application to sponsor a child adopted from Ukraine. I actually forgot that part. I've only thought about this week. I tried calling earlier this week but I never managed to get the line. Today I could finally talk to someone. The only thing I had to do was send them a fax saying they had arrested any of the adoption process with Ukraine. I did everything that now is just wait for a letter from them confirming the closing of our file with Citizenship and Immigration Canada. Little by little, we will end up really close this chapter of our lives ...

Friday, August 22, 2008

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Money, money, money!

A question we receive, unfortunately every time you told someone that we stopped our efforts with Ukraine, "Bin there, how much money you have lost with this? "Uh ...

personally, I feel like shouting" I lost my angel and it is more important than my money! "

But back to money, I agree to speak because I want people to understand. We do not regret at all having to spend money for our adoption in Ukraine. It was our dream, it was important to us and we are glad to have tried to the end. What makes us sad is that our project did not have the desired end. By cons, we knew before we embark on the adventure that nothing was certain.

Also, there are people who say we should fight with the agency that gives us back our money. Personally, I do not understand at all why I would ask them that. The money that gave the agency, we had the service that was planned for that money. The only amount that has not been used by the agency is $ 364.50 and I received it today.

The money that has already given the agency was primarily to cover the cost of checking the record, legalization, authentication, the Consulate of Ukraine in Canada, the shipping case in Ukraine and much more. Our file has passed all these stages. Supposedly that our dossier has been translated except that the agency we had not asked yet $ 1000 for the translation. The next step would be filing our case to the SDA and there, we had to pay back the agency, but only after the case was filed.

Yes, we paid more than $ 7,300 (a total that would be more than $ 30,000) so far to try to realize our dream. By cons, almost half of that sum has been paid here in New Brunswick, not to our agency. A very large portion of the money was used to build our case. This really has nothing to do with the agency, regardless of the agency, the cost would have been the same. The total we paid the agency is $ 4,568 (including $ 364.50 that we just get back). Here's the breakdown of the cost we paid: Cost

already pay far

Agency Registration: $ 318

Passport: $ 196.78 ($ 87 each plus $ 22.78 for photos)

Birth: $ 50 ($ 25 each)

Marriage Certificate: $ 25

Criminal Check: $ 57 ($ 28.50 each)

Letter from my social worker: $ 100

Report Medical: $ 50 (Mark took his free)

Psychosocial Assessment: $ 1,854.12

Canada Post: $ 20.78 (to send our dossier to the agency safely)

Immigration Canada: $ 150 $ 2 650

first part of the cost to the agency that included checking the file, legalization, send and retrieve our file of the Consulate of Ukraine, and send our dossier to the Canadian Embassy in Kiev, Ukraine

$ 800 paid to the agency for costs mail, authentication, notarization and legalization of our record (in the back, pay the lawyer the agency incurs to do that)

Total for our dossier is sent in Ukraine: 6 091.68 U.S. dollars


September 2007: Repeat
medical record: $ 90 ($ 10 each for blood tests $ 20 to $ 50 for me and Marc)

Repeat criminal check: $ 57


January 2008:
$ 800 paid to the agency for costs of legalization and notarization

Total pay until January 2008: 7 038.68 U.S. dollars

March 2008: Repeat
medical record: $ 55 ($ 10 for blood tests, $ 20 to $ 25 for me and Marc)

Redo criminal check: $ 57

Make update our assessment: $ 200 Post

all: $ 10 Total

pay until March 2008: 7 $ 360.68

Would You Let A Friend Smell Your Feet

And me?

There are some people who ask me how I, I go into all that, or rather hear the grapevine that people are worried about me. First, weird that people are worried about me when nobody bothers to come and ask me if I'm alright ... anyway, I'll survive, we must.

I must admit that with all that's really where we see who are our true friends. It is very easy to be friends with someone when all goes well, but when everything goes wrong, it's more complicated ... but that's really where we need our friends. The last weeks I just have to live really not easy. And one thing I found hardest was not having the support of the people I thought my friends. By cons, do not put everyone in one basket. I have some friends who were surprised by their play, their support and presence, but it's not that I had thought that would be there. Unfortunately, we are in difficult times same time to clean all spheres of our lives.

In difficult moments like this, we often just need someone to get us out and we see new things a bit. It really does not want to justify why you feel that way.

In any case, a chance that my tit Chou was near me ... and he is the only one who understands exactly what I live. Unfortunately, he saw the same thing as me.

Marc and I decided we were going to go on a little vacation in PEI Prince Edward Island in September. We put our lives on "hold" for 2 years, now it is time to live fully. I think it will do us much good before putting our efforts to go in search of our Treasury here in New Brunswick.

And a big thank you to friends who were there ... I do not need to call you, I know you are going to recognize you.

Thursday, August 21, 2008

Broken Blood Vessels On Breast From Breastfeeding

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before yesterday, we decided to inform the agency that our decision was final, we finalize the adoption process with Ukraine. This morning I had an answer. A response that tells me the same thing since the beginning of the year. A response that tells me the situation present in Ukraine, which is beyond their control and supervision of their facilitator in Ukraine. An answer to a certain point, I totally agree with. By cons, they always give me the answer to my real question is why the agency did not file any case since the beginning of the year while others have several drop. So all this just confirms that we made the right choice to stop our efforts.

At least his message ended with a note that said she would send me this morning by priority mail all receipts, financial statements and the balance they owe us. Really, it's the only one I wanted them here at this time. I wanted to get back the $ 364.50. It's not a lot if you look at what we already pay for the agency. For cons, I totally agree with the amounts being paid to the agency. We agreed to pay them and we had heard the services for amounts paid unless the latter part of last $ 800 they had been sent.

Yes, I am sad that all this is over, but relief that the agency did not want the air to cause me more problems ... at least for the moment. Remains to be seen whether I'll really get the check.