We heard today from CHI in 2 emails. The first one was a fairly detailed explanation of why they were denied and what they know NOW about the action they are going to take to resolve it. I'll spare you the details because they would just confuse you anyway, but ... long story short: it has to do with a very minor detail that doesn't even apply to them as an international agency.
The 2nd email was from our program director and she gave various paths to take based on where we are in the process. We are still waiting for the fingerprints to come back and the I-171H form to be issued so our dossier is not yet in China. This gives us 2 options: 1) find another Hague Accredited agency to work with or 2) remain with Children's Hope--they are working on a plan to work with/through Holt International to get dossiers submitted. They don't have the details worked out yet but hope to by the end of this week.
How does this affect us? It doesn't -- YET. Again, because our dossier is not ready to be sent to China yet we are so far not affected.
Obviously, the ABSOLUTE BEST thing that could happen is that they get another review soon (rather than having to wait a year to re-apply but that is up to the review board) and they get approved and then our dossier is ready to send and all is good. Plan B for us is option 2 above. Once they have details worked out with Holt, that will PROBABLY be our best option and path of least resistance. It sounds like we would still contact CHI as we have been doing but they would be working with Holt on other things like getting dossiers submitted, etc.
So, that's the latest. Our contact at CIS has been out the last week but will be back in the office tomorrow so maybe I'll get an answer soon to my email about fingerprints status.
Stay tuned......
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