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It is so odd that we are all going through things differently. That is one thing I have learned in this process. I do think that SW's handle things differently but would'nt you hope that all of the paperwork would be streamlined by now. We were given the choice to use ARTS for our DCFS prints or just go to our local police station and have the prints done for free. We chose our local police station, I think the ARTS prints were like $39 dollars a piece. Our SW told us that if we use ARTS she gets the results almost immediately. If we go through the police station and send our prints in ourselves it will take a few weeks. We got printed on a Saturday and I mailed our prints to the Illinois State Police on Monday. I wrote on our paperwork that it was for an international adoption, please expedite. We had our results back in less than two weeks. Where was the ARTS facility you used? The one that our SW told us to use was in Joliet, but she said the results would be to her in a matter of days. Of course they would probably prefer us to use this method but the local police printing worked out great for us, and it was only $16 dollars a piece. (the fingerprinting is free but you send the state police $16 for processing). Our homestudy agency does not do fostercare licensing, they only do homestudies for international adoption. Maybe some of the agencies also do homestudies for foster parenting and domestic adoption and it is just easier for them to have all of their clients go through the same process. I would highly recommend our agency if anyone is interested. They are wonderful to work with and seem to be very knowledgable about international adoptions. We received our I-171H in 17 days after our homestudy was submitted. We did request to be expedited due to a special needs adoption but I was impressed with the timing as the USCIS was going through their staff changes at that time also. Best of luck to all for speedy paperwork in either case!
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