[KDhappygal]

While our adoptions were not at the exact same time, we were finishing our adoption from Guatemala, we started our first adoption from China.

We didn't avoid anything. Our Guatemala daughter was part of our China homestudy.

You can be approved for 2 different countries with BCIS. You do 2 applications, 2 sets of fees, 1 set of fingerprints.

Can't answer the agency question. We used 2 different agencies because our Guatemala agency did not have a China program. We did use our Guatemala agency for both homestudies.

We followed the countries rules/guidelines. With China, if you have adopted from another country already, there has to be a year between recieving each child. Our children arrived home 14 months apart.

Do your research, talk to your prospective agencies....