[Ktates]

Welcome Steffanie! This is a great place to get questions answered and for support - don't know how I would have survived without it! For any of the agencies you are considering I would check with people who have recently returned and ask them how their experience was and how their support staff was in Russia. If the agency works in different regions then I would contact parents who adopted from different regions as the support staff could be different.

Also find out if you have any control over the region you are assigned to - some regions take a lot longer than others or have different rules than others.

Best of luck-
Karen