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The most difficult thing about international adoption is the financial aspect - the planning to make it work, and the stress that it causes. The feeling that it is out of your control as you wait for the foreign (in our case, Russian) government to pick apart your paperwork and assign children to you is also daunting as they have so many regulations. The US Government can be difficult too if either spouse has ever had an arrest.
Our agency is absolutely wonderful, so we have no qualms whatsoever on that end, thankfully.
Good luck!
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Adopting one boy and one girl from Krasnoyarsk
May - October, 2007 - Researching adoption & interviewing agencies
October 17 - Signed with Placing Agency...dossier paperchase begins!
October 19 - Signed with Homestudy Agency
October 22, 2007 - Filed I-600A
November 26 - Picked up approved homestudy!
December 28 - Apostilled Dossier & Homestudy arrive in Russia
January 4, 2008 - Find out our dossier is being registered in Krasnoyarsk
January 5-January 29 - Nitpicking of documents by Inspector in Krasnoyarsk; five rounds later, we are finally good-to-go
January 16 - Received I-600A/I-797C approval!
February 5 - Dossiers finally registered in Krasnoyarsk
April 23 - Best day ever! We received a referral for our little boy.
May 15 - Received our referral for our little girl! Yippee!!! 
May 20-25 - Traveling to Siberia to meet the little ones!
Court Date ~ July 29, 2008
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