Notes to Ontario families anticipating a referral:
Apply for Part 1 of Citizenship (can be done in advance). If you have been approved for twins, apply for two.
When we got our referral, here is how it worked:
- We had to sign and return a 1 page acceptance, to be sent to Vietnam
- We had to have our children's medicals signed by a doctor, to say we had reviewed them (This was for our Adoption Practitioner)
- We met with our AP to sign our acceptance for the Ontario government, and to update our homestudy
- We got the 1 page Vietnamese/ English medical letters re-done by our Dr.s
- We got our police checks re-done right at the police station, or you can use www.truecheck.ca. (If you go to the police station in Ottawa, they may suggest you need the letters of occurrence and fingerprints; however, these are not necessary for the update)
Don't panic if your doctors can't see you right away (mine went on vacation) or if your AP is busy; just do the best you can. We were told there was no urgent rush for anything except the 1 page acceptance. We took it to Staples and had it scanned so we could e-mail it to the agency and it could go straight to Vietnam!
1 year ago
2 comments:
Hey,
Are your updates required because those things expired once your file was there?
We are updating our whole homestudy now, since the pregnancy, and hopefully will receive a referral in the next six months... once our LOA gets sent to Vietnam... we won't have to update those pieces again when we get our referral, will we?
Jules
No, you should be fine! They expire after 6 months, and for most people it is well over 6 months between homestudy completion and referral.
When will you be done (homestudy)?
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