[Curiouser]

My husband's job requires us to move alot. I'm just wondering how a move would affect the adoption process.

Can anyone share how moving 1) post homestudy, pre-referral, 2) post referral, pre-arrival, and 3) post arrival would affect the process? Don't you have to have a few homestudy visits after your child's arrival? (Just beginning the process so still pretty clueless).

Also, would it matter if your move was just to a different region in the state or out of state?

Thanks!

[nancyinoh]

If moving after arrival, you could always have a local homestudy agency do your post-placement visits. (the number required varies by state law - we had to have about 7)
Not sure about earlier in the process. Check with your agency.

[waiting4xander]

This is one area I can relate to. We are a military family and as luck would have it are almost ready to move but still waiting for our son.
I am actually staying put until my son is in my arms. Then we have to find a licensed agency in the next state for our post-placement visits.
You can move at any time, but I didn't want any further delays that may have occured due to changing paperwork. Best wishes with an adoption.

Donna

[Curiouser]

Thanks. So it sounds if maybe we would be safe to move after we get DC home just not before. I think we could work that timing.

[sak9645]

If you move from one state to another any time before your child comes home, you will need to have an agency in your new state revise your homestudy to comply with the adoption laws of your new state, to comment on the adequacy of your new home, and to comment on how the move affects your financial capacity and other critical issues (such as social support, job stability, etc.) This information will have to go to the U.S. Embassy and to the Korean government.

If you move after your child comes home, but before his/her adoption is finalized in your state, you will need to comply with the adoption laws of your new state, concerning a homestudy update/revision, post-placement visits, police clearances, child abuse clearances, etc. Any post-placements must also satisfy Korea's requirements, and you should keep your placement agency "in the loop" so that it will know that you have done what you were supposed to do.

In short, it is possible to move either before or after your child comes home. However, under ideal circumstances, you would either move before starting the adoption process or after the adoption is finalized in the U.S.

Sharon

[Curiouser]

Thanks, Sharon. Sounds like moving during the process will be way complicated if we have to.