Child Referral
Your adoption caseworker will contact you directly with information on a waiting child, unless your are utilizing an outside placing agency, then either the placing agency or our agency will be the one to contact you depending on the placing agencies policies. The amount of available medical and social information on the child varies from agency to agency and from country to country. Your verbal acceptance of the child will begin the process of legally placing the child with your family. Visa clearance and other paperwork must be obtained and CIS clearance secured before the child is placed with your family. Time frame from referral to placement can be as little as two months or as long as eight months.
