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We have created this blog to share our experiences with family and friends in our process to adopt a child .
Adoption Timeline
February 2010 - Decide on adoption
March 2010- Decide on Poland and sign agreement with Agency, start collecting documents and start Adoption Education Classes.
April 2010- Obtain FBI/DOJ live scan fingerprints.
Two meetings with Social Worker to start Home Studay
May 2010 - All NON CA documents sent out to be Apostilled and returned.
Homestudy being reviewed.
June 2010 - Not much happening
July 2010 - All clearances notarized and sent to us and Home Study approved, notarized and completed! Sending all CA documents out to be Apostilled. Sending out I-800 to CIS.
August 3, 2010 - Paperwork sent out to US Citizenship and Immigration Services.
August 16, 2010 - CA documents sent to Secretary of State in Sacramento to be Apostilled.
August 23rd, 2010 - Received back all but 2 CA documents from Secretary of State in CA and Apostilled.
September 7th, 2010 - Send final 2 documents to Secretary of State of CA to be Apostilled.
September 8th, 2010 - Both of us fingerprinted for the second time required by US. Citizenship and Immigration Services.
September 13, 2010 - I-797, Notice of Action paperwork from USCIS received - I-797 is the approval to adopt one child from Poland.
October 2010 - Fired our crappy agency, looking for a new one.
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Please, let me know! My email is rachel.fulton@gmail.com. My husband and I were planning on adopting from Poland, but are rethinking that and will probably try domestic fostercare adoption first, but Poland is still on the table. What agency was it and what happened?
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I'm very interested in this topic, as we are in the midst of evaluating referrals from Poland.
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pleas send to me as well. jzerbe@gmail.com
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ReplyDeleteIf you would like to hear my issues feel free to email me, my email address is public, but here it is again. karink57@hotmail.com
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ReplyDeleteWe are talking to St. Mary' Adoption agency now and I am very impressed with them. I would like to hear more about your exp. Pls write as soon as you can..thanks!
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ReplyDeleteWould you mind sharing the name of the agency to avoid and why? My wife and I are currently researching adopting from Poland I would love to avoid any issues in advance. My email address is drawetzel@gmail.com. Thank you Andre'
Hello contact nkwentia@ymail.com if you are interested in private adoption . My husband and I adopted from this orphanage .
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