Another Double Update

It's been very exciting that both our adoptions have been making progress lately!

Ethiopian Adoption:  The immigration approval that our agency told us usually takes 5-6 weeks to receive only took us 2 weeks!  We we were so thrilled to find it in our mailbox on Saturday.  We sent it to our agency, and we should be placed on the referral waiting list soon.  They estimate that it'll take about 14 months until we're matched with a child, and we'll receive monthly updates with our new number in line.  We're excited to be at this stage of the process!

Domestic Adoption:  We had our final joint interview on the phone with our agency today, and will both have an individual interview on Monday of next week.  Things are moving along well, and I'll start to put together our family profile this week.  I think after our individual interviews we'll be able to send in our family profile and then wait for a birth family to select us.

One thing I forgot to mention in my previous post (but have added now) about domestic adoption is that our agency lets us decide when we'd like to be informed that a birth mom has chosen our family.  We'd like to find out as soon as we're selected so that we can make plans.  But we could opt to wait to be told until after the 2 weeks that a birth mom has to change her mind.  So if that's a factor holding you back from domestic adoption, their very thoughtful option essentially eliminates you from experiencing a birth mom changing her mind.