Well, here is the deal as we understand it. Each adoption is required to have post-adoption reports done as specified by the country you are adopting from. It is up to the home study agency and families to ensure that these are done. The agencies on the list that was released may have delinquent post-adoption reports. This does not mean that the agency is not a good agency, it may not be any fault of the agency at all. After speaking to our case manager she explained that sometimes it is the families who do not comply. The agencies on the list may have one delinquent report or hundreds, the list doesn't specify. Each agency will have to find and submit these reports in order to have their names removed.
What this means for us: I have talked with our social worker who will be in contact with her boss. Hopefully it will only be a few reports or less and they will be able to clear their name. If they do, no problem for us. However, if in a week or so if they have not been able to clear their agency, we will start a new home study with another agency. We will still be registered and waiting. We will just need a new home study before we go before the judge. The judge may not have a problem with our current home study, but if he is strict and followes the letter of their law, he could deny the current one.
So hopefully our current agency can resolve this quickly and there will be no need for a new home study. Home studies can take several months to complete, so I pray this will be resolved with out the need for a new one. I would for this to delay us. The good thing is we are newly registered so that fact buys us a little time to get this resolved.
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