Wait Time? Are we misled?

I think it depends entirely on when your child or children become "available" for adoption. During out time in Poland, I saw everything from people adopting 4 year olds, sibling 3 and 5, and even babies as young as 1. From what I've seen, these processes have taken anywhere from 1-2+ years. Adoption from Poland is very possible. DOnt lose hope. Just be patient that the right child or children will matched with you when the timing is right. hope this helps

Thank you for your generous words and taking time to reply. I can't help but worry, however, support from you and hopefully others reassurance will guide us through this time. It really helps to hear "real" people who are genuine give good honest advice. I know it's hard for everyone to see the light at the end of the tunnel who are in the process, but connecting with people who have actually been successful and brought their child home to love or children gives a lot of encouragement to not lose hope. What I need is to believe God's will and his will be done unto us when that time is right for us and for the children we hope to embrace soon one day.

Hi there! We adopted a healthy and happy boy last spring from Poland. He turned 2 while on our second trip and today started preschool! For us it took 18 months from start to finish. At about the 7 month period (after paperwork was sent to Poland) we received a referral that we turned down. Our son's info was given to us at 11 months and we are so blessed! I agree with Momto2gals that it really depends on the matching and who is available. It is definately possible we also met other families there that had sibling groups all with similar wait times around 2 years or less. Best of luck!

I haven't known any of the agencies that work in Poland to mislead people. The timeframes vary, but I've been told it is a slow and steady program. We have been home two years with our daughter. She just started kindergarten last week:) She was 3 when we got the referral and almost 3.5 when we came home from Poland as a family. All in from time we turned in our docs to Poland it was 12 months. However, some of our applications were going a little faster at the time because they were Pre-Hague and they didn't really yet know how to process pre-hague docs. So I think that was a little fast. I've seen faster and slower from docs to home. A single child under 3 is possible, just might be slower. I was told siblings were quicker, but others have been told it might slow the process down. Poland seems to really try to match the child to the family. How they do it I don't know, and if you ask why did you think there was a fit (once in country) they won't be able to tell you. However, every family I've spoken with seems to feel their child is a good fit for them/their family, etc. Our daughter looks like our bio son. It was important to the orphanage director that our daughter have a brother and one that was patient. How they knew he was patient, I have no idea:) I know waiting is difficult, but when we started the adoption process our daughter wasn't available for international adoption. Only by waiting were we able to be matched with our daughter.