It's in the Mail

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It's in the mail.  Well, that is what we were told last Monday.  The psychologist was able to deliver the letter to our placement agency.  Our placement agency promptly assembled the dossier and put it into the mail to the Philippines.  According to the DHL website, delivery to the Philippines should take 3 days.  We have not heard officially yet but, hopefully, the dossier has arrived.  Now it is a wait and see game.  The next thing is to wait for approval by ICAB (the Philippine government) of our dossier.  The approval process usually takes one to two months.  Once we are approved, we wait for our referral.  The referral is the information about the children ICAB thinks are a good fit for our family.  Currently we are hearing that the wait for the referral could be up to three years.

Thank you to all those who have supported us through this process so far.  Now we could really use everybody's prayers.  This can be one of the harder parts of the process as it is totally out of our control.  We just have to wait and see.

UPDATE: We just got word that ICAB has acknowledged receiving the dossier on September 18th.