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Old 11-17-2011, 01:00 PM
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ANybody form Virginia out there?
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Old 11-17-2011, 02:54 PM
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Hello ... I am in VA as well ... Welcome ...
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Old 11-18-2011, 07:04 AM
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Yeah! Somebody else is here! How far along in the process are you?
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Old 11-18-2011, 07:57 AM
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We are from VA. Welcome!
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June 2006- First meeting with agency. Not married long enough, need to wait a little longer.
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Old 11-21-2011, 11:50 AM
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We've finished 3 of the 4 home study visits, in process of de-cluttering the house (which seems harder than it should be).
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Old 11-30-2011, 03:46 PM
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We're in Va too. I was just looking for more people from our area.
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I am in culpeper va hello
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Old 11-30-2011, 05:19 PM
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I'm here off and on - more off than on lately.

We are in Yorktown - completed the process twice, and are loving being a family....
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Old 12-01-2011, 07:08 AM
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Wondering if anybody can enlighten me on what they look for when 'inspecting' the house. We have the fire alarms, estinguishers, etc. Anything else they looked at?
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They were primarily looking to make sure we had room for a child. They didn't expect us to have a nursery ready. We spent the majority of our home visit/inspection sitting and answering questions..... the walk through the house took less than 5 minutes.
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From virginia also and just starting to look for an adoption agency which lead me to this forum.
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Old 12-28-2011, 01:27 PM
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Duster5555, are you looking to adopt in country or internationally?

We're down to last visit and D.H.'s physical to do...trying to schedule visit end of next month.

Anyone on this board do the foster care to adopt?
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Old 12-29-2011, 07:21 AM
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We are looking to adopt in the country. We are looking for local places in virginia for the home study rights now. Who have you guys used in virginia?
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Old 12-30-2011, 06:44 AM
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We're going through foster care, primarily because we'd like an older child instead of an infant, but it doesn't hurt that it is much cheaper. The classes were rather eye opening.
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We are using Commonwealth Catholic Charities & from what I understood was that they will do your home study even if you don't want to use their adoption services. We live in a rural area and had a hard time finding someone who would come do our home study. BTW, we are not Catholic and that didn't seem to be an issue.
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