My passport came in the mail yesterday!!!! After only 3 weeks which is AMAZING! They had originally said 4-6 weeks, so I was counting on like 7 weeks. We are still waiting on Scott's renewal to come in. We applied for them the same day so it should come very soon.
Just to give everyone some more details on the process:
Question we get asked the most:
How long does the process take? We expect/hope to finish the adoption in about one year.
Will you be adopting a boy or girl? We have requested to adopt a boy! He will probably be between 1-2 years old when we finalize the adopt and come home.
Do you have to travel to Russia? YES. We will be making two trips to complete the adoption. Our first trip will be between 4-7 days. The last trip is up to 24 days.
Fun tidbit: There are more boys readily available for adoption. Reasons we have been given are: women feel that a daughter would better care for them in older age. Men in Russia are less accepting of a son from a previous relationship then a daughter. There may be other reason? But really who cares??? The wait for a referral for a girl is up to two years. We chose to request a boy because if we put either on our application they explained there is probably a 99% chance you will get a boy. We wanted to prepare the babies room this summer so we just went ahead and checked the boy box!
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