Timeline

Since I am traveling to visit Avery in less than a month, everyone has been asking when she'll come home. I borrowed this timeline from another family adopting from Haiti. We are currently in IBESR ,and have only been there for 2 weeks...so you can see we have a long ways to go. The hardest part is each stage can vary greatly in the amount of time it takes to get through it. The biggest miracle for our family would be for Avery to get here around May/June when I am off for the summer! That would be just perfect!

Timeline:
1) First Legal - 1 to 4 weeks
2) IBESR - 3 to 12 months
3) Second Legal - 1 to 4 weeks
4) Parquet- 1 to 14 months
5) MOI- 1 to 3 months
6) US Visas issued - While this is a 24 hour step for Canadian citizens and less than a week for French citizens, it has taken up to several months for American citizens. (This is not a Haitian step but one carried out by representatives of the adoptive parents' home country.)