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Originally Posted by OnTheBrink
That's awesome! Do you know how long it will take? Will you travel to Ethiopia to get your new child?
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Well, we have to have our homestudy completed, and that won't be able to be done until October when dh is home from Iraq for R&R. I hope to have most of it done before he gets here, so that only his stuff is left to finish. Then we have to prepare the dossier - then it needs to be translated for the Ethiopian courts. Once it's accepted (hoping that will be done by next Feb at the latest) we wait for a referral, which could happen anywhere from 1 month to 15 mos (typically within that time frame). Under a year old child usually takes longer, but we are open to up to 2 years old... so we expect it to be shorter. After the referral we will travel to Ethiopia for about a week, but that is AFTER the adoption is actually finalized! So when we go there, the baby WILL be ours.
There is something that you have to do in the US consulate office before leaving Ethiopia, so that is why we have to travel. One of us must travel, so we may not both travel... but if we can figure that out, we definitely will.
It's a long process and I am sure there will be glitches along the way... but we are ready.
And Katie, thanks for the link!