First off, I feel like I stalk our dossier coordinator. Very mildly, and it comes and goes. But she's a lovely, responsive, highly organized dossier coordinator. And she always takes my questions (usually by email) so graciously.

Today's email to dossier coordinator ~~~

Hello wonderful woman who is holding our lives in your hands:

Any news on a travel date for our dossier? Do we need to pay for the authenication/apostilles now?

Waiting was much easier when I had the paperwork to keep me busy. Every day seems like a week right now.

Cheers,
Tricia

And her prompt reply, 24 minutes later:

Hi Tricia,

No news yet on travel, but the agency director is looking into the different regions right now, trying to determine where we will be sending you. I hope we have some good news soon!

Best regards,
Dossier Coordinator

Ok, so does this mean that we are:
1. Getting assigned a region and then waiting for a referral in that region?
2. Going to receive referral information soon?

As I mentioned previously, our agency told us that they do not file our papers in a region... our papers are filed when we accept a referral. That keeps more referral options open.

Of course, I could email back and ask her what she meant but that wouldn't be any fun for my overactive imagination.

And isn't my "excuse" for emailing just fantastic??!!