Well it's Monday morning and the disaster has been averted. After an emergency meeting at our adoption agency yesterday afternoon, our agent is in the car this morning on her way to Ottawa to sort everything out at the embassy. Thank god.
As it stands, their Ukrainian agent who will be meeting us when we get over there seems to be an excellent woman who takes no chances on anything- even the smallest of details. So she was the one who suggested the correction, because they haven't placed enough kids with this new person in the Ukrainian government office to know what kind of attitude she has about common sense things like this on documentation. You would imagine that the #1 priority for anybody working in this field would be to place as many kids as possible to get them out of state orphanages, but of course like in any career, you find miserable people who like to make things as difficult as possible for no other reason than they like having a bit of authority to call the shots. So where you or I would simply say, "The document was completed correctly, it just has 2 sets of dates because obviously the blood test results had to come in & get reviewed after they were ordered in the first place," this could be seen to be an insurmountable "problem" to somebody else with a rather robotic outlook who probably hates their job and wants to make things difficult for somebody else.
In any case, we're sleeping soundly again, with things on track for filing. Yay!
No comments:
Post a Comment