Another Step Complete (sort of)

We just had our last home study meeting today!

The last thing we need to do for the home study report are the psych evaluations, which are set up for next week. Once the psychologist has those completed, we will have a completed home study and will be able to start our dossier.
For the dossier, we need a bunch of paperwork, but the two things that will take the longest are the FBI clearance (which we already sent in) and the immigration approval (which we need our home study report for). The immigration approval is estimated to take 12 weeks (maybe less?) to get back (sigh).

So as far as time frame is looking, we will have at least 12 weeks (?) until our dossier is even ready (which gets reviewed by Bethany's corporate office, then by their person in Colombia, is then translated, and then sent to an adoption house).

We also were able to get more information from our case worker about a very rough estimated referral wait (since before all we knew was somewhere between 6 months to 3 years). She let us know that there are some families in front of us (only two can apply to each of the three? adoption houses at a time) and estimated it might be 18 months for a referral once we have our dossier in (time for those families to get a referral and then time for us to wait) (another sigh).

We knew things were going to take time, but I think we were hoping that somehow all of our paperwork would miraculously appear at the front of every line? Since we are such amazing people?! :)