How To Adopt A Child To Usa

the steps that we took to adopt our two childrenwere very similar. first of all in our case because we did it internationally, we hadto find an agency and we did find all gods children and from that period once you findthe agency then you send in typically some kind of fee saying that you are interestedand that you actually do want to adopt a child using there services and then they send youa contract. you sign the contract and send

How To Adopt A Child To Usa, back the money and they send you a whole packetof information that you need to take care of and the packet of information has, if theyare a good agency, will have a whole list of the things that you are supposed to do.like, they will tell you things like you need to be fingerprinted, you need to go get securitychecks done, background clearances to make

sure that everything is okay, you need toget a social worker and the social worker will walk you through steps that she needsto clear your home as a going to be a loving and stable environment for any children thatare brought into and after you are done with those particular steps and there is a lotmore than that. then there is just the paperwork stuff that you have to do. we had to havecopies of our marriage license and our birth certificates and they all have to be statecertified so you need to send those off and they get that certification process done andso you end up with a huge packet of papers which is commonly known as the dossier andyour dossier just keeps getting bigger and bigger and everybody has their method fororganization. i am definitely not the most

organized person in the world, so i took tipsfrom other people, a lot of people keep folders with different things and they put tabs othem for "done" and "not done". i had a front and back section for things "that yet to becompleted" and i would just put a blank sheet of paper in what i was waiting for and thentake out the blank sheet when the right one came in, but you end up with a significantamount of paper and typically the agency does not want anything until you are completelydone so it becomes a thing on your part to keep doing it and it is not something youcan do in a day. i know people have done it very short periods of time but typically ittakes people months to get these papers all together and once all the papers are all togetherthen you send those back in and then you are

usually put on the waiting list. usually sendin your fees along the way and things like that but then you are put on the waiting list.in my case i think the program is changed now and it is a little bit longer wait butwe signed our contract in november of 2001, almost to the day, a year from the time thatwe had signed the contract and we got on the waiting list in july, my daughter was actuallyborn in july so we were on the waiting list about i think only a couple of months beforewe got the call that she was born and then from july to november is the end of the paperworkphase, you certainly have enough paperwork to send in, you need power of attorney sothey can continue on and you do a few other things like that but in that period time youare basically just waiting and our agency

is wonderful so every month we got an updatewith how our daughter was doing. she was actually in an orphanage for that time period and thenthe people called "special mothers" that took care of her and finally in november of 2001we went and picked her up ourselves and within what we were down there for four or five days,and then we brought her home and she came to live with us in her forever family.