Posted in Chosing An Agency, Ethics on Jun 27th, 2007 2 Comments »
Recently Rebecca over at Adoption Blogs posted a long and well-researched blog post all about Little Pearls Adoption Agency and its history. This is good information to read for those researching agencies.
She says,
After reading all of this, I have to reiterate “Do your research!” We are so lucky that we have the Internet and so many [...]
Posted in Chosing An Agency, In The News on Jun 19th, 2007 13 Comments »
In recent months many agencies have notified their clients that the wait time for a referral is going up. Where previously it may have been 3-6 months, now agencies are quoting 12-18 or even 18 to 24 months. PAP’s are understandably frustrated at the increasing waits and the seeming slowdown of referrals. Is there a [...]
Posted in Chosing An Agency, Experiences, Travel on Jun 11th, 2007 12 Comments »
For as long as adoptions have been reopen (and likely long before that), parents have shared experiences about their time in-country. Likely those of us lucky enough to run into other parents in Vietnam who use different agencies probably notice major differences in how the in-country experience is handled by various agencies.
What can you expect? [...]
Posted in Chosing An Agency, The Process on May 29th, 2007 4 Comments »
Recently Jennifer G left a comment about soft referrals. She said:
“According to my agency, some agencies make “soft” referrals of babies/children. That is, they offer referrals before the babies’ dossiers have been officially approved. They say this approval process normally takes four months from the time a baby is found orphaned or abandoned (this period [...]
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