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Russia and eastern European adoption... advice? please?
jenbrem
September 30, 2011 22:15
Hi,I know that a lot of people wont understand our wish to adopt from an other country, and i''m not asking you to. but i hope that you would appreciate that that is our choice.For those that are also adopting from eastern europe and russia, i''m hoping to get your advice. we had made our innitial contact with our local authority november 2010, but we didn''t get any contact back from them, so i''ve called them a number of times this year, and i think i''m finally making some progress on our first steps on starting our application. it''s been particularly frustrating as it''s been almost a year and we still havent filled out any forms to start our application, and i''m only just getting the information pack being sent out... i have been told that i should contact our neighboring LA, !BUT! we live on an island in the Scottish Hebrides and no other LA will help us! i''ve tried! so i guess i''m going to have to keep pressing on with what we have. my only concern is that we was to adopt internationally and our LA have zero experience with this. so i''m wondering if we will have to move in order to adopt abroad? and if you have any other words of wisdom to pass on i''d be so very greatful! Jen
jenbrem
October 3, 2011 17:55
is there anyone that can give me some advice?
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thespouses
October 5, 2011 12:30
It may not be your local authority that approves adopters in your area - it is not in ours - but the LA should tell you who does it.The UK Adoption Overseas Yahoo group should be able to help you with some of the country issues, or OASIS.
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brackettlicious
November 1, 2011 10:58
Hi,we adopted a little boy from Russia just over a year ago. Our LA (in England - so may be different for you) at the time had subcontracted out ICA applications to a voluntary adoption agency in our region.I don't know if it might be possible for you to use another agency rather than your LA for your assessment? Our VAA were very efficient and from our initial interview to panel was about 9 months. The next step wasn't quite so straightforward (as is to be expected in ICA!). Join the RUKA group on Yahoo as well for more advice and info.Good luck - hand in there - it is worth the wait!
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apples
November 24, 2011 13:54
Hello,Not sure if this response is too late.If you are adopting from overseas you have to be assessed by your LA or the agency to whom they contract their work in this area e.g. PACT.With domestic adoption you can be more flexible in terms of who assesses you- we were approved and assessed by a neighbouring LA.Unfortunately, you will not be high up on your LAs list of priorities. They will want to focus on finding adoptive parents for domestic adoptions- not helpful to you.I would suggest writing to the team manager and asking for a time line of when you can expect to be assessed. Email may be even better because then you can copy in those further up the command chain.Good luck- I hope you manage to move things forward.
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Sunflower
January 17, 2012 14:00
Ask here:http://groups.yahoo.com/group/RussianUKAdoption/All the best
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helicopters
December 5, 2012 14:33
Hello, how are you getting on? My husband and I are planning to adopt from Ukraine because this is where I am from and I know that it is much worse out there for orphaned children than it is in the UK. I read on the Ukrainian Embassy's web site back in summer that we need to first become approved adopters in the UK. Those pages are now gone from their website and I am unable to find any information whatsoever, anywhere. We contacted our LA in August and it took them until November to get back to us and we just had our initial interview which was very positive and we are very excited. We have not told them that we are seeking an intercountry adoption. We just want to become approved adopters first.
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Donatella
December 5, 2012 15:09
I think you'll find that you have to tell them you want to adopt from overseas. Otherwise you'll only be approved to adopt in this country. Generally there will be a cost involved in doing a homestudy - usually lots of money.But if you don't tell them you intend to adopt from overseas then the homestudy won't be of much use to you!
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jenbrem
March 15, 2013 00:08
hi all,thanks so much for all your replies! well we had our first ever meeting with a social worker which went incredibly well, we came out feeling so positive. however she decided that it would be best to have out medicals done before going any further at the moment because of my history with losses and subsequent depression. but all seems fine with my medical. my husband is going for his first thing tomorrow. i can't see any problem with his to be honest. we talked briefly about inter-country adoption in out meeting. i was very open about everything, i surprised myself in doing so because i tend to keep everything to myself. but i'm all in in this adoption process and that means no holding back on anything. i think the SW was a little surprised by my blunt honesty, and by the look on my husbands face he was too! LOL!so here we go! hopped on and strapped in for this adoption roller coaster!
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Murray
March 17, 2013 00:13
Well done!! and congratulations, hold on tight!!
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