Quick Adoption Update

Well, it has been a couple of weeks since our dossier went to our agency and unfortunately, the documents that went to Washington DC to be certified have still not caught up with the rest of our paperwork. These documents are needed before the dossier can be sent to Ethiopia. AAI hopes we will have the documents back in another couple of weeks. USCIS has all our paperwork for the I-171H which is the other piece of paper we are lacking at this time so we will be waiting by the mailbox patiently for that as well. Looks like we will be waiting a couple of weeks to start the real waiting! I have been trying to track the referral times based on when people with AAI have sent their dossiers to Ethiopia. At this point, it does not appear that anyone requesting an infant who's dossier went to Ethiopia after the first of the year has received a referral yet. By my count, that makes the wait for referrals for infants at least 8 months (which is subject to change based on how many people are requesting infant boys ahead of us). Looks like it might be a good time to start learning some Amahric and working on those long awaited home renovations. Anyone up for some demo work?