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just my humble opinion...go ahead and submit your application. The people most affected by this change are the people who are waiting for trip one now. By the time you have all your paperwork completed, the system should have caught up with referrals. Your agency should be able to give you a realistic age range for a young girl. If it is an age range you can live with, go for it!
We are considering going back next year - as we just returned with our children in November, updating our dossier wont be as time consuming as starting from scratch. We'll probably look at submitting our paperwork this summer and hope to be home with another boy by end of the year. I think that this is realistic, but I will get my agency's advice and will pad whatever time frame they give us by a few months (like we did this year.)

I know it's really stressful, and if you are worried about losing the application fee ask your agency if it is possible to switch countries early in the process if things look too worrisome for you in Russia. Any good agency should agree to this.

Best of luck!
Christina