The Adoption Journey - General Discussion #1

[Panthya]

Hi Jacinta,

Actually the first time I called ICA to ask what was happening, I was told to be patient and to call only if necessary.

Which is why I was worried to call when we hadnt heard anything.

But just to clarify an issue which I didnt make clear in my other post the 5 months wasted was a total.

The first 3 months was when we didnt know that they had lost one reference, then I got the courage to call them and was told they didnt have the original reference and I would need to contact our referee and get her to send in a second copy.

So that same day I called our referee and asked her to send off another copy of her reference, which she did the next day, we then waited another month and didnt hear anything - Maybe I was a little naive here as I thought they would have let us know if the second copy had turned up or not but they didnt - so then I called again only to be told that they hadnt gotten the second one. I tried to contact our referee but she had already gone overseas on a holiday with her family and so we had to get other person to replace her as a reference.

That is why the 5 months got wasted, I'm sorry I didnt make it clearer earlier that I had called ICAS twice in that 5 months.

But as I said before those 2 calls I had been told to be patient and to only call if it was really necessary to, which kind of made me scared to call at all.

I'm really glad though that your experience with ICAS has been better than mine