The Dossier is Done!

I can not begin to tell you what a sense of relief and satisfaction I feel after I sent our completed adoption dossier on Wednesday. Each document in this photo represents many hours of effort, some headache, a few tears of frustration and eventually, success. All of that adds up to the satisfaction I feel right now. Hallelujah!
Thank you to those of you who provided reference letters on our behalf as they are a very important component of our packet. We appreciate your time and effort put into those.
I expect it will take a few months before the dossier is actually submitted to the Inter-country Adoption Board of the Philippines (ICAB). Currently, our social worker in Manila is finalizing our home study report to be added to our dossier. Then she'll send to our agency in the US before it gets sent back to the Philippines and officially submitted to ICAB. At that point we are told it will take 2-3 months to become "approved applicants." And at that point, we will be able to say we are waiting for a match which could take anywhere from 12-24 months, we are told. But we are also told that anything can happen! I guess we should be ready for anything. Here we go!