When we
received our Home Study approval letter, dated Jan 5, 2012, it said on it that
our approval was valid for one year. I know some provinces approve Home Studies
for 2 years, but it seems like Alberta doesn’t. (And yes, it’s been that long
since we got approved.)
In
December, we contacted our agency in Calgary and asked how to go about getting
approved for the new year. They sent us a one page form to fill out and send to
the government. It was so easy! The form asks if there has been any change in
your life since your Home Study in terms of Health, Employment, Family
Situation and a few more like this. If anything has changed, you have to
provide a short explanation. But if nothing has changed (like is our case – I
guess there are some pros to this stagnation in our life), you just tick “no”
to everything, sign it and put it in the mail. A few weeks later, we got a
letter stating that we were approved for one more year under the same Home
Study. We emailed a scanned copy of this letter to our Ontario agency and we’re
off for another fun and exciting year of waiting!
Actually,
when I called our Ontario agency to ask how they wanted to get this letter,
they didn’t even seem too interested in it. I believe they expect this letter
to be long expired before we get a referral.
I should
specify that the letter said that, in a year, we will need to get a full Home
Study update. I don’t quite know what this entails, but that’s how it works in
Alberta: our Home Study is good for 2 years, but we have to get reapproved
every year!
Anyway, now
we’re all in order and ready for a miracle.
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