Laurie, I'm guessing that, according to your DTC, you'll be flying low-season when seats are easier to get on direct flights between China and Germany. But if...
Barbara Pines
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Sep 1, 2004 11:52 am
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Hi. We live in France so cannot really help with the German-specific questions. But it is possible to use an American agency and we chose to go via the...
THere are many agencies which will help you with this. Click some key words into Google and you should come up with a list. darindunham <darindunham@...>...
Not sure if Italy has any restrictions on visa's from China, but check with GWCA in Houston, or Children's House in Utah- they have a lot of experience with...
Hi Lori, I suggest you contact as many agencies as you can and see if anyone will give you a "yes" answer. We did that last fall and many agencies said they...
Hi all, This is a question for those of you in the UK. When you took any UK- issued documents, such as doctor's letters, bank statements, employer's letters...
HI Lori, I was wondering if you could let me know which agency you are using for your Russian Adoption. I would like to know if they can work with a British...
Laurie, I am so glad to hear you were successful with the DEERS. This is another one of those situations where it varries from region to region it appears....
Hello Jarrett, we live in Germany and adopted two children from Russia, the first one through the American system, the second one through the German system. We...
Ursula Van Meter
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Sep 1, 2004 7:20 pm
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Hi Jarrett, My husband and I also live in Germany (Stuttgart) and are not military. I hope these answers help! Angie Miller 1) Are we required to work...
Hello group:-) There have been several posts today about Chinese adoptions. I represent our agency that we used twice while living overseas to adopt from...
How exciting! We live in Stuttgart Germany (US Air force) & are in the middle of adopting from China. It is my understanding from our coordinator of the...
Dear Maria, We are stationed here the UK. We were married here in the UK 12 1/2 yrs ago. We had to have our marriage certificate apostille/notarized here....
Hi Cindy Thanks for your reply. I wonder, who was it that specified you had to have your UK marriage certificate notarized by the UK, and not the US ...
Hi all, Has anyone here had experience with your insurance provider not covering congenital anomalies of an adopted child? We were told by our insurance that...
Hi Maria, We are adopting from the Ukraine. Our agency is the Sense Resource Center. All our US documents were notarized by the legal office on base. Then we...
Hi Cindy Thanks for the info. I recently contacted the state department, who said they WILL apostille documents which have been notarized by the US embassy in...
Maria, Can you tell me more about how you will be doing this? Who did you talk to at the State dept? Do you have an email address? I'm wondering if this ...
Hi, We are new to this group and this is our first post. We have a question about SOFA and visas. I am an American citizen and my wife is a Dutch citizen,...
Whom did you contact at the State Dept to find out this and where do you have to send your documents to be apostilled? To Wash DC? Or can it be done in London?...
It may be diff in Kazak but when we did our dossier for adoption in Ukraine, we had our UK marriage certificate notarized and apositlled in the UK and our...
Hi, I looked up the State Department's website, went to the section about notarizing documents, and found an email address for them there. They replied to my...
I can't answer all of your questions, but will do my best. If you are going throught he US system (filed I-600A) and get an IR3 visa then you have 6 months...
We had all our documents notarized at the consulate in Edinburgh. The state department Appostilled them. I found the people at the consulate and the Embassy in...
Well less than 2 weeks into her first year at school, and I got a note today saying that sometime during this first term they will be asking parents for the...
Hi Lauren, Can I ask you 2 questions please: 1. Did your file contain both US and UK documents? 2. What exactly did they do to notarize the documents? Did you...
Lauren, Oh dear, I never thought of that aspect in adopting. Coming from the teaching side though I would suggest speaking to the teacher after school &...
Lauren-- 1. Talk to the school about sensitivity. 2. Fake it--find a baby pic of someone who looks enough like Sally to pass (on the net if necessary), print...
I just need to add that before we considered adopting I WAS the teacher requiring things that an adopted child could not produce. I had an assignment...
I have posted the INS/BCIS specific files regarding home study requirements. Look for it at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/adoptionforamericansabroad/files/ ...