Saturday, October 31, 2009
Prayers for Fellow Eastern Families
The Korean government issues an Emigration Permit or "EP" for it's citizens that leave Korea. They only allot so many each year for children being adopted internationally. There are four adoption agencies in Korea that Americans adopt from, and each agency gets only so many EP's each year. Our agency in Korea, Eastern, will not receive any more EP's this year. Which means that the last babies to travel were 'referred' in early May. So any baby referred after May will not be coming home until February. Gabe's referral was April 20, had it been a few weeks later we could be in this same situation. My heart just breaks for all the people this will effect: the families waiting for their children to come home to them, the babies waiting in Korea to join their forever families, the foster families that will have some of these babies for 14 months and get even more attached to them, and the social workers and staff at Eastern and the U.S. agencies who are surely as sad about this as we are. Please send a little prayer, good vibe, warm thoughts, etc for all these people that will have a hard couple of months ahead of them.
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I just saw this on a couple of blogs this morning... I am utterly devastated for them. :-(
I knew about this from families in this situation with the visas running out. Our agency orignially told people that if they received their referral after July 1st they would have to wait to travel until next year. Now it sounds like things are affecting people who received their referrals even before July 1st. Ugh. My heart aches for them too. Our referral was at the beginning of May, so it is hard not to envision ourselves in the same situation. Waiting...so hard...stinks.
Oh, I saw this somewhere else too. My heart just aches for everyone involved. :(
This is just awful for those families. We are also with Eastern so I can imagine us being in this situation. I guess this is one reason to be thankful that we are still waiting for our referral.
Thanks JoJo. This just stinks. It's horrible. We got our referral May 26th, and here we sit not being able to bring her home until at least February.
I can't even believe this is happening.
Thank you so much, Joanna.
i hadn't heard it was official, but i knew things were looking like this would happen with Eastern. so sad. i can't even imagine.
Thanks, JoJo... we were referred June 9 and we are now looking at Feb/March to meet our girl in person.
It is unbelievable... but the support and love of our fellow adoptive parents is very comforting, so thank you.
I can't understand our govement.
I know we send many babies to other country..it's shame..
But i think the babies who was decided their forever mom and dad have to go to them early before the babies can remember everything.
I hope many korea babies are happy with their new forever family!
So it is official... My heart is aching for everyone this is affecting.
I think Mi Yeon states it perfectly.
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