[WaitingforaBoy]

Hey,
Dh just got accepted to the NICU Program and we will most likely have a different follow on station after his course is done in May of '08. We are super excited for his opportunity. But most likely we will be going to Japan or Germany. We are currently in TX. How, do you think, will this affect the adoption process? We just started.
Thanks.

[KMT_TFT]

We're pursuing an interstate adoption and are at the earliest stages. We're PCS-ing to Korea in a few months but have been told that we'll be able to continue. Our agency will freeze our file until we get reestablished over there, so we don't lose out. Good stuff.

One concern was getting the homestudy updated once we get into our new home. I just spoke to International Social Services (ISS-USA.org) a few minutes ago. They can get our homestudy updated for us without issue.

Not sure how this impacts the ICPC and all of that fun stuff. From what I've been told, one we leave CONUS, we will have to adhere to NC law because that is our legal residence (driver's license, voter/vehicle registration, state taxes).

[katerkat]

It's really not that big of an issue? DH and I wanted to do an adoption from foster care (not fost-adopt), but we're leaning toward overseas for our next assignment.

[Linny]

This info comes from years ago, but I think it may still apply.
My dh was Air Force and we hadn't started anything with adoption until we were in Okinawa, Japan. On Okinawa, there was only ONE adoption agency---period. (Wouldn't surprise me to know it's still that way?)

They did our homestudy and we set out to adopt from Korea. (At that time, you could adopt a CC baby or bi-racial baby from Okinawa; go through the PI--which is no longer I suspect----or adopt through Korea.)

At that time, they always needed families for bi-racial babies on Okinawa, though because dh and I are CC, they wouldn't allow us to do so. (Remember, this was many years ago....

Our first baby came within a few months, and once she turned 1yr, we tried to apply for another baby. (We refused to apply for CC babies.) We found our second baby (who was born in Japan), but our own networking, and had the agency do the paperwork from that point on.

I suppose then, by PCS-ing, we weren't hurt at all. If you're ONLY going to adopt domestically, I suppose it could, but once overseas, the opportunity to adopt there, was much more sensible. Fees---at that time----were very reasonable.
And, as someone else stated, not only did we have to adhere to the laws of Korea or Japan, but also to our residency homestate.
Looking back, adopting in that manner was MUCH easier than adopting stateside. We've done both, many times.

I hope this helps in some way......My best to you......

Sincerely,

Linny