More News...sort of....

All adoption agencies who work in Russia must be accredited. What this means is that they have submitted the paperwork and have been reviewed and given a favorable conclusion to work as agencies in Russia. While accreditation is not new, this process is. Prior to now agencies had to be re-accredited, but with this new application process, apparently the accreditation is non-expiring. It has taken a l-o-n-g time for the Russian government to implement this, and most agencies have still not been accredited. Our agency is one of them. But, in the adoption community, especially dealing with accreditation in Russia, even a little news of forward progress is good news. Today we heard from our adoption agency the news of forward progression. (Small steps, but steps none the less).

ACCREDITATION:
Many are anxiously awaiting news on accreditation. The Ministry of Internal Affairs finally prepared the positive conclusion about (our agency) as well as other group of agencies. We are now half step away from the Accreditation. We are now awaiting the order from the Ministry of Education to issue the Accreditation Certificate.
Some families already find information about this from the other agencies’ chat groups. We don’t want to confirm nor deny this information to families until we get the actual Accreditation. This can happen at any time.
We are anxiously awaiting news on accreditation.

I sure hope that we receive this certificate of accreditation soon. I bet it would speed up the process....maybe not for us, but for others awaiting court dates to bring their children home. Plus it would open up all the regions in Russia that our agency works with, so hopefully there would be more children available to adopt. Please keep praying for accreditation to happen so that these Russian orphans can find their forever homes!