[cici32]

I didn't use FF miles but if I remember correctly you are in the Chelyabinsk region. We just returned home from completing our adoption from that region and I can tell you that the judge never waives the 10-days. We were also able to get the passport done the day after we picked Andrei up, which was a Tuesday and flew to Moscow Tuesday night. We had planned on spending the entire week in Chelyabinsk because we were told we would apply for his passport on Tuesday and pick it up on Thursday. So obviously we moved up everything else. We orginally planned on coming home on the 28th and was able to come home 9/23. We did have some issues with hotels in Moscow. There was a convention going on and rooms were hard to come by, so we moved around each night. Thankfully, we were only in Moscow 3 nights before flying home.

I know this has nothing to do with FF miles but I wanted to post our experience, so maybe you could figure out some type of time line and run it by your agency to see if it would work for your family.