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The exact same thing happened to us last year. We did back flips through hoops working our tails off to get our entire stack of paperwork, fingerprints and all, done as soon as humanly possible. It tooks us less than 48 hours and included driving to another county just to get it done faster. Then we handed it to the main adoption placement person who had taught all our classes. She left it sitting on her desk for a MONTH before we found out in our final class that we didn't have an ID number for our case...because we weren't in their computer system. She finally put it on the paperwork person's desk...while that person was on vacation. So 5 weeks after we submitted it our paperwork was finally documented and our fingerprints sent out. Everyone else in our classes became foster and even adoptive parents months before us. The delay caused our fingerprints to get caught in an FBI backlog that took 3 months to process.

Then when we were finally approved we saw the perfect sibling group on our county website and called that same main adoption placement person to give our homestudy to the caseworker for that group. She said sure thing. We called back a week later and she said she'd given it to the CW but that they wouldn't make the final decision for another week. We apparently didn't get selected, or so we thought. A couple of weeks later we ran into the actual CW for those kids and asked about them. She had no idea who we were and had never been given our homestudy.

Now this week, about 9 months later, we just found out that the same situation may have happened again. I'm not sure what to do. I do know I'm going to demand a copy of my homestudy.

Jess