Update

I figured I should let everyone know where we are in this crazy adoption process. We have had our homestudy visits and gotten the rough draft emailed to us for corrections. I sent it back right away, last week, but have not received the final notarized copy yet. Once I get that I can send in our I600A which is what we file to the US Immigration department for approval to adopt. I can also turn in our dossier, minus the I600A approval. Once this is approved we can send our dossier to Ethiopia and be officially "waiting" for a referral. In reality we will get on the list as soon as we submit our dossier, even before the I600A approval comes but if we were to get a referral before that was done, we would have to wait until we had received it to move forward. Right now they are saying that from dossier to referral is 3-6 months so I'm hoping we'll have a referral by fall.