[BrandyHagz]

Social Services wouldn’t be able to provide you with a International Adoption suitable homestudy. Social services homestudies are done, primarily, for adoptions of children from the state and some of them aren’t even suitable for private domestic adoption.

Your Guatemalan homestudy will have specific requirements, so it might be a good idea for you to work with someone who has completed a Guatemalan homestudy in the past. Additionally, you might want to find out what your placement agency requires in a homestudy, if you’ve already picked your agency.

Some things to consider when searching for a homestudy agency are:

Their timeline from first visit until they submit the final homestudy to USCIS for approval.

Their experience with writing international adoption homestudies or even Guatemalan homestudies specifically.

The flexibility of the caseworker who will be assigned to your case. Obviously, you don’t want to work with an agency who only does homestudies on the 3rd Friday every other month on even years and the 2nd Tuesday of months that end if BER on odd years…LOL

Remember that you are paying them for a service, they aren’t doing you a favor. Interview them just like you would any other service provider!