Signed, sealed, delivered!

Last night we officially, officially finished our home study.
Read it, signed it, and it's being mailed off today!

We are so excited to be done, done, done! with that step!
Colorado law says we can't be in possession of our home study, so Angel Dance has to mail it to whoever we need it sent to.

The next steps are:
1. Angel Dance mails homestudy to Adoption Alliance (some kind of regulatory agency, they should approve it and send it back to AD in 4 days)
2. Angel Dance mails in our I600 application (I600 is a petition to adopt an orphan and a I171H is what you get with a successful I600) to USCIS (USCIS is United States Citizenship and Immigration Services) application along with our home study
(this will be sent next week once Adoption Alliance approves our application and sends it back to AD)
3. USCIS sends us a biometrics fingerprint card and we go for digital fingerprinting  (this is required for the I171H)
a. We will send in our dossier without the I171H
(The I171H is a required document, but we won't get it until 8-12 weeks from when we mail the I600 application so we will let One World start on our application and then send them the doc when it comes)
4. USCIS sends us a I171H and we send it to One World

We have been told by One World that our wait for a referral will be 0-3 months from the time they receive our dossier.  We are the only ones on their list with the specific criteria of "two children under five, no gender preference" this means, we are first in line!  In order to fully accept a referral we will need $13,000.  
Our wait from the time we accept a referral to the time we bring our children home is 4-6 months.  WOW!  That means, if all goes well and according to schedule the shortest wait will be: 6 months.  If all goes a little slower, the longest wait will be: 18 months.  Timelines are crazy and we truly have no idea how long it all will take...but as of today, we are closer than we were yesterday!
WOOHOO!!!