Hope

Sometimes you just need to live on hope.  We have not heard anything substantial yet about our official referral but we were told by our adoption agency that Claudia's State/Region (in her country) is cooperating.  To me this means that they are getting the referral paperwork ready, then it will be translated, sent to our agency and finally sent to us to return to her country asap!  Once we get the paperwork we can submit our USCIS 1-800 paperwork.  Our agency said we should start filling that out now.  So we have HOPE that things will continue to run smoothly, with Godspeed!