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Mommy,

All the information you have been given already is good for Ethiopia as well. I did not escort but I did condsider it. The costs for me (single) to travel would have been roughly the same as if I had escorted. The best advice on that of course would be check with the agency that you are using on their costs and policies.

The other thing to consider when escorting v. traveling is the I600. When you travel your I600 is filed in Ethiopia while you are there. When you escort your I600 is filed in your local USCIS office (where ever you filed your I600A). You would need to check on the length of time it is taking your office to process this document. Some areas of the country seem to be processing them fairly quickly. My area was slow at it and we estimated that escorting would add about an extra 4 months on to my adoption process.

Samantha