The story of our adoption process started on January 26th 2010. It was the day that we presented the documents to the Government of the Generalitat de Catalunya.
We had requested the adoption of a little child from 0 to 3 years old.
Once sealed and delivered the documents, a few days after, they called us to go to the first training sessions with the psycologists and the social workers. In mid-march, we started the process of the long awaited certificate of suitability. This is the document that allows you to adopt a child and consists in four or five sessions with the psycologists talking about our life, our childhood, our live together, our parents... etc, etc, etc... After that, the next step is the home studio with the social worker in order to check if our home is ready to accommodate a child.
On July we received a letter of the Catalan Institute of the Adoption with the preciate certificate.
At last !!! We were prepared to be daddy and mommy !!!
The next step is to sign up with an ECAI (Entitat Col.laboradora en l'Adopció Internacional). These guys will help us throughout the adoption process.
We have spent 7 months in all of these "matters", but at last we were prepared to sign and take a step forward... and this step is to create our own dossier with photos of us (individually and together), photos of both families, photos of home (all rooms and three of the child's room), and all the documents concerning the request of adoption. All of these documents has to be signed, translated and compulsed in Moscow. These documents were sended to Russia in November.
After that, the only thing we can do is... AWAIT to do the next step, that is receive de assignment of the location to pick our child.
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