Denmark, Spain and U.S.

I just wanted to let you know what I found this morning because, at this point, everyone is really discouraged and needs any reason at all to keep the faith. The Danish agency Danadopt's latest post is that one of its families has accepted a referral from Bac Kan province (although there is no indication whether it is from the regular or special needs list).  Also, the Spanish agency Creixer Junts has posted that it received one referral from Vietnam in February (again, no idea as to which list), and added (translation by Google and I):

"In Vietnam we are hoping that we receive the quota for 2013. We believe that we will receive it in March. From our existing cases we only have 3 families waiting for older children. In April we will travel to that country to see about the possibility of completing those cases." (good luck to them...if it's that easy why isn't everyone doing this?)

As I have mentioned once before, my agency said long ago that there are no more quotas, so I don't understand why other agencies keep waiting for them. Maybe my agency is the only one that will not be given quotas? I don't know why this would be, especially since the new system is supposed to regularize the process across the board.

While I was away, I read (thanks to free wifi in the jungle) that U.S. authorities met with the Vietnamese government and announced that adoptions between the two countries should resume shortly after a shutdown several years ago. A few weeks ago, I wrote about a similar announcement from Ireland. I don't know what these countries are basing their predictions on, but I do know that there are still *thousands* of families from Canada, Spain, France, Italy and Denmark who have been waiting our turn for years and years. I also know that Canada, at least, is still stuck in round 1 after all this time, and that, based on the speed of round 1, all the other rounds from our country and all the others certainly won't be completed "shortly" to make room for new applicants or "new" (aka not currently operating) countries.

Here's hoping that jabiru delivers some JOY-ful news our way in March 2013.