YodaI’m really excited about the list of agencies that received their accreditations, but it made me wonder... why them?   Is it just sheer luck that they’re in the first group or is there some sort of pattern?

I looked at the list of the 8 renewed agencies and compared them to the MOE’s list of expired agencies that’s ordered by expiration date.   That list seemed like a reasonable order for reaccreditation to me.   And sure enough, the first 3 on that list were chosen but then the pattern broke.

So, I decided that if anyone would know the answer to this question, it’d be Yoda, I mean Jim.   I posted a message for Yoda Jim on FRUA and his response was that the chosen agencies probably had to do with their post-placement reports being up to date rather than expiration date.

Ahh... now it all makes sense!   Our agency required us to pay for all of our post-placement reports when we completed our dossier.   I thought this was crazy at the time.   I believe I even made some sort of comment like, "We have to pay now for follow-up reports on a child that we don't even have yet?"   I guess this is their way of assuring that we’ll follow through with getting those PPR reports done so that they’ll stay in good graces with the Russian MOE.

Thanks Yoda Jim for your sage advice!
 

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