Hi and welcome! We adopted our son in September 2004 and our entire adoption from signing on with our placement agency to coming home after trip #2 (court) was 6 months and 2 days. We received our referral 3 days after our dossier was handed in and traveled for trip #1 four weeks later. Court was 4 weeks after that. Trip #1 was 5 days long and trip #2 was 6 days long.
Now, that being said, things are very, very different from a year and a half ago when we completed our adoption. Go back and research previous threads and read, read, read everything. The biggest decision you will probably make is what placement agency you will use (this can make or break your adoption experience). Things have changed so much that we are starting adoption #2 for a girl and are going with either Guatemala or China (and we had an excellent Agency and experience) but did not even consider Russia this time around because so many issues and long waiting times. Good luck and who knows maybe I will see you in Guatemala this year
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