God just keeps on pointing us to Nicaragua! Yesterday I went to the national adoption center here in Chile to inquire about the possiblity of jumping through their hoops to adopt from here. I am truly amazed at what I heard! First of all, there is a program for Chilean nationals that we will qualify for once we've been granted our permanent residency AND have had that residency for no less than 2 years. In other words we'd qualify in 4 more years to BEGIN a Chilean adoption. Second, there is a program for foreigners, but we don't qualify for that one either because we are living here. So basically we want to jump through their hoops but we can't join the circus here in Chile.
That just reconfirms everything God keeps telling us - "Nicaragua is where the children I have for you are waiting."
For now, we are doing what we can to speed up the adoption process. We've begun some adoption classes on-line to make our homestudy move faster, and then when we get our final approval from the ABWE board in July, we'll really begin the long process.
