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Old 06-24-2008, 11:29 AM
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It's been many years ago (1980/1982) that we adopted two infants while living on Okinawa, Japan. One child was born in Korea, the other on island.
At that time, there was only one adoption agency on the entire island which had American and Okinawan caseworkers. We worked with both. As I recall, the agency was closer to the Navy Hospital Base then. Seems like the name was something like International Social Agency Okinawa (ISAO).
I'd check with your base legal; and, as far as I remember, you WILL need to have a homestudy conducted. At that time, even though both babies were born overseas, we still had to satisfy the criteria for our 'state of residency' as well as the local courts. Not entirely sure how that works when the baby will be born stateside.
Please feel free to pm me if I can be of any help to you. I realize it was a long time ago, but we were also involved with others who adopted while living on Okinawa as well.
My best to you...

Sincerely,

Linny

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