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If you move from one state to another any time before your child comes home, you will need to have an agency in your new state revise your homestudy to comply with the adoption laws of your new state, to comment on the adequacy of your new home, and to comment on how the move affects your financial capacity and other critical issues (such as social support, job stability, etc.) This information will have to go to the U.S. Embassy and to the Korean government.

If you move after your child comes home, but before his/her adoption is finalized in your state, you will need to comply with the adoption laws of your new state, concerning a homestudy update/revision, post-placement visits, police clearances, child abuse clearances, etc. Any post-placements must also satisfy Korea's requirements, and you should keep your placement agency "in the loop" so that it will know that you have done what you were supposed to do.

In short, it is possible to move either before or after your child comes home. However, under ideal circumstances, you would either move before starting the adoption process or after the adoption is finalized in the U.S.

Sharon