My best friend/business partner finally got through the process and got his baby boy about a month ago and he could not be happier. It was about a 4 month process, but he even knew the girl that he was adopting from. Before he "ran" into her, he was looking into adopting a baby from asia/europe and he told me that it was not as easy as I would have thought and was going to cost about 25k.
Best of luck