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The amount of time it takes to complete an open adoption varies from family to family. When a prospective birthparent contacts the Independent Adoption Center (IAC) looking to make an adoption plan for their baby they are sent a packet of family profiles we call “Dear Birthmother Letters”. From these letters they will pick the families they are most interested in getting to know better. So as prospective adoptive parents you will be receiving both emails and phone calls from these women where you will get to know more about them and why they are placing their child for adoption. Because it is impossible for us to predict when you will meet the birthparent you will ultimately adopt from, we are not able to give you an exact wait time. What we can tell you, is that on average the amount of time that prospective adoptive parents wait at the IAC prior to adopting is 6 to 18 months.