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I guess the speed of your adoption can be determined by how quickly you are able to get your dossier done. But the time frame for many documents in the dossier depends on sources you have no control over! Such as: ordering birth certificates, getting USCIS documents, getting your final copy of your home study done. This is the most frustrating part of adoption to me: waiting on things that are not under my control!
The other consideration is the country you adopt from. Some countries just have a longer process due to the time to get the dossier together, to the court systems, to the travel requirements. I don't know if 12 months is a reasonable expectation for an infant from Russia, perhaps those who are adopting/have adopted from Russia would know more.
We are adopting from Kyrgyzstan. The dossier is very simple, we completed ours including USCIS approval in about 2 months. But we only had to get an I600A approved, which is much quicker than the I800A I am understanding. Our agency also had a very short waiting list for a boy, we got our referral just a couple of weeks after completing our dossier. Some agencies working in the same country have waiting lists that are much longer.
I think the best thing is to call agencies you are interested in working with and talk to them about the timelines they are seeing with countries you are interested in.
Karla
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