ADOPTION UPDATES - THE LATEST NEWS

What a process this has been! A draft of our homestudy is complete, our training is done, our pockets are empty AND we are officially on the waiting list to receive a referral to adopt a baby from Taiwan (as of August 5th). That's the good news. However, our agency is now quoting a wait time of 18 months for a referral of a baby boy and 2 years for a baby girl. (When we first started the process, the wait time was expected to be only 6 months for a boy.) This is not our agency's fault, however. The requirements to adopt a baby from China became very strict in May of this year and the wait time that China is quoting is 3 YEARS for a baby girl. Thus, there has been an enormous flood of people moving over to Taiwan's program. It looks like we won't be traveling to Taiwan to pick up our baby until at least 2009.