Are we days from adopting? Well, the attorney and the placing agency can use email and phone to alert us immediately if there are any issues in our dossier. We can email responses, even pictures, and send notarized forms by overnight mail. The government adoption professionals can move priority adoptions ahead of all others, and review documents quickly. Committees can decide that the excellent, detailed psychological, health, and financial reports answer all their questions, and move for quick approval. SNA can assign referrals at the meeting next week or soon after. The US Customs and Immigration Service can process the next form in a few weeks. We can get a flight on short notice, paying half of full fare for an adoption fare with an open return date. We could be days from adopting.
Are we weeks from adopting? The attorney could be presented with several dossiers to translate at once. We could have to get new letters, new reports, new clearances that would have to be legalized and translated again. There could be problems with the paperwork for certain children, so that they are not freed for adoption, or need to have their birth certificates reexamined. USCIS could take five weeks to clear us to travel. We could have to wait until we can get a ticket for Alex on the same flight with us. We could meet the children, only to have the Peruvian social worker conclude that we have not bonded enough in the first week, and must stay extra time before completing the adoption in Peru. We could be weeks from adopting.
Are we months from adopting? We certainly hope not. We aren't holding out for some perfect age or type of child. It's not hard saying "yes" to the children we met...it's harder to say "no."
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