Today's events went as well as can be expected I think. Diana talked to Kersti, who hadn't at the time spoken to Rutt yet. Kersti told Diana that she was waiting for a letter from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs about the bilateral agreement, and after that she'd hopefully be able to submit the dossier to court. But she wanted to know how we would feel about sending her new originals to submit to court instead of her having to pull the old originals out of the court where we adopted Anna. Some of them might be out of date anyway. Diana told her that we'd already started to anticipate that and we would send over new originals as soon as we had them all. Diana said Kersti's tone was better than usual - like she was assuming that everything would go to court and be fine.
Later I got an email from Rutt saying she'd talked to Kersti and told her about the MFA's decision. Rutt talked to her about submitting the dossier and Kersti told her the same thing she'd said to Diana about our originals.
So it does seem like the letter from the MFA is doing its job!
I got an email from Anna Valentina yesterday (Katya & Roman's former caretaker). She said she wondered if it might be possible to get Estonian government to agree to allow the adoption without involving Russia because she was feeling like consent from Russia could not be gotten. I wrote her back and told her what happened - that we'd already tried that and seems like it worked.
We told the kids (in an email) that we were able to get part of the Estonian government to agree that consent from Russia is not necessary for their adoption, which would mean that their adoption problems were fixed and we just needed to wait for court again. They wrote back very excited about that! But none of us know how long it will take to get a court date from here.
We have been working like crazy since everything started to be resolved, getting new originals for our dossier just in case they asked for them. We knew they would not give us any notice about needing them, so we just planned for it just in case. It takes a few weeks to do, but fortunately we should have everything done by Wednesday morning. Then we can FedEx the documents to the lawyer, who will take them to Kersti. That means theoretically the documents could be in court midweek next week, and that leaves us roughly 5 weeks till the courts close for the summer. It seems like Kersti is willing to make this an urgent matter, so there is still a good chance that we could get squeezed in before courts close. Seems like the least they can do after putting us through all this for nothing!
That's all for today. I'll keep you posted!! Sooooo glad things are starting to go well for a change!
Love,
Molly
Monday, May 18, 2009
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3 comments:
And I'm so glad for you!!!
Aww, that's fantastic news! Hope things continue to roll in the right direction for all of you. Yes, I agree, that's the least they could do for everyone involved, especially those two children, who've waited longer than they needed to. Hip, hip, hooray! :)
Wow this is great - so good to see that Kersti is being so cooperative ! LOL.
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