An update on the adoption front

We received an email from our agency yesterday. All of our paperwork has been sent to the USCIS! WOOHOO!!! This means that we have to wait about two weeks for an invitation to be fingerprinted, then after that it is another waiting game for our fingerprints to come back from immigration.

Then, we send all of our paperwork to the state to be certified.

Then, we send all of the certified paperwork to our agency and they send it to the Chinese consulate to be authenticated.

Then they receive it back, and SEND IT TO CHINA!!

Seems simple enough. Shouldn't take too long.

Did I mention that it could take up to 3 months to get our fingerprints back from immigration?

Then did I mention it would be another 2 weeks to get things certified?

Then did I fail to mention it would take up to another month to get things authenticated?

HHMM, another 4 1/2 months?

I pray this is the absolute worst case senario...