[prayby2004]

HI,

My husband and I have been on a long journey, starting our adoption process internationally 18 months ago. We have decided to expand our search (our agency is saying possibly another 15 months for a referral for Colombia, South America) for children. I started looking on state photolistings (DFCS) and located two different sets of siblings that I e-mailed the caseworkers about, inquiring about the children. My agency has already faxed our homestudy to one of the caseworkers (on Tuesday). The caseworker e-mailed me to say that she received it. I asked her in the e-mail what the process was for adopting via DCFS since I am totally new to this.. All she said is that they are "staffing" on these two children this month. That's all she said!!! What exactly happens? If the child/children are on their photolisting, the parental rights are terminated.. what then happens? Do they accept homestudies for a certain amount of time? If no other family has expressed interest within a certain amount of time, then what? After receiving the homestudy, how long, do you think, before I might hear something? Do you think I'd be more of a bother if I called her mid-week, next week??

I would completely appreciate any feedback. I am really clueless on this.

thanks!
Patty