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We didn't get ours quite in time for Christmas, but we did get it in time for New Year's! We've just accepted the referral of a baby boy, about 7 1/2 months old!!! Now we're just waiting, fingers crossed, for CIS to approve it.
Our official login date for Vietnam was 9/11 so it went faster than we expected it to (as opposed to China, where we'd started & logged in about a year ago & which now has a wait time of 3 years). Just FYI to anyone still waiting -- the wait times are much, much faster for baby boys, if we were waiting for a baby girl we wouldn't be anywhere near a referral.
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No news on our end.DS is now 10 mos. old & we are waiting on some paperwork to go with our I600 application. There seems to be quite a backlog already with this new procedure for filing the I600's.Sure would love pics of my boy. Congratulations Bunnygirl! DS was the same age as yours when we got his referral.
Hi! Are log in date must have been around the same time, all our paperwork was done and mailed by sometime in August. Anyway, no news. Our agency has had some "problems" and no one has had a referral since September, so things are not looking good. I have not even been checking in because we seem hopelessly far away. :-) But, I guess it will happen when it is meant to. We our on the list for a girl, so longer there too... Happy New Year and Congrats to those with their referrals! Hang in there to those waiting! Bonnie
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We are still waiting for our referral. We submitted our dossier in July and are being told by our agency that it will take 8 to 12 months for a referral for a boy.
You recieved a referrel in 4 months or less? Wow!
What agency are you using?
Sara
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Our baby is from Tuyen Quang Province. We were actually expecting it to take longer because of our experiences with China (we logged in about a year ago & will probably have to wait another 2 years) so we were really thrilled when it came through so quickly! I think the wait time depends a lot on how many orphanages a particular agency works with and in which provinces. If they only work with one or two orphanages or if the bulk of their referrals were coming from orphanages in the provinces that shut down it's bound to make the wait time longer.
I will be finishing my homestudy this month and I have almost everything for the dossier ready. So hopefully in the next month or two I will be officialy waiting. I was also told about 12 months for a boy so I am surprised to see how fast some are getting referrals. Of course that is a good thing! Hoprfuly when I get my dossier in I can get a better timeframe. I am afraid to take a vacation this year because fmla is not paid for so I need my vacation days-but I can only roll over a few days.