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My story is now 10 years old and also takes place in Canada, but for what it's worth:
Applied (thru Social Services) mid-1991.
Released for home study mid-1992.
We chose to delay while we dealt with infertility testing, all the way thru to IVF.
Requested reinstatement late 1995.
Homestudy commenced Spring 1996.
Homestudy completed September 1996.
(We didn't find out til later that our profile was shown to at least one pbmom immediately; she gave birth in Oct 1996 but decided to parent).
Received phone call May 1996 advising us we'd been chosen to parent a 7 month old girl (yes - the same baby born in Oct 96)
Three days later we were home with dd.
I guess if you remove the time period that we chose to withdraw from the program, we'd have been 1 year waiting to be released for homestudy, and another year for the homestudy process and coming home with our child = 2 years total.
Incidentally, I remember when we first applied we were told we'd be waiting 3 - 5 years for a healthy infant.
Also, in 1997, we met a local couple who brought home their healthy infant boy some 7 months after they applied to Social Services, they were immediately released for homestudy and matched with a pbmom - I think their start-finish adoption was fast-tracked for some reason (? - they're great people! but it sure seemed odd how fast everything happened for them)
I believe that what's meant to be, will be. Whether it's 6 months or 6 years, the child that's meant to be yours will come to you.
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