Thursday, March 12, 2009

Potential Timeline

Here's the "guess"timate we're working with:

Homestudy: 2-3 months (we should have our completed homestudy in ~ 6-7 weeks)

Dossier (we're working on it simultaneous to the homestudy): 2 months

Referral (including Child Background Study) : 6-8 months

Acceptance of Referral: 10 days

Petition for Adoption submission: 4-6 weeks

Obtain Initial Court Date: 2-4 weeks

First Court Decree: 1-3 months

Second Court Decree: After two week mandatory appeal time

Travel (to Taitung): Minimum of two day stay (to Taipei): up to 4 days

Dare I say it....... we could be traveling next spring-summer. I've read enough journals to know that anything can happen. We need to take one step at a time.....trusting God each step of the way.

A little birdie told me that the first family in our pilot group received their referral within 1 or 2 days of Dossier submission instead of the projected 6-8 months. How cool would that be.......

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