[mika26]

I read a post somewhere can now can't find it that a woman adopted from two countries at the same time since one country was taking so long to process. Has anyone here done that and if so did you use the same agency for both? If you used two different agencies which two? How did it work? Did you notify the different countries that you were adopting from the other at the same time? How did you avoid them puting that in your homestudy? How did you get approved with INS or what ever they are called now?
I am really interested in this because I want a boy and a girl. I figured a boy from a boy rich country and a girl from China.
What were the difficulties of doing this?
Guidance is appreciated
Mika

[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....

[mom3boys]

There is a blog that I read frequently from a woman who has a LID in 4/06. She just recently brought home a little boy from Vietnam. I'm not exactly sure, but I get the feeling that she is using the same agency. Some agencies will not allow this. You'd have to check around.
Marjorie