homestudy? - stationed in germany

Dana, Have you been to the family support center on base where you are stationed? I would think they would be able to point you in the right direction concerning where to get a homestudy done while being stationed overseas. My husband is in the Air Force, we are stationed in Alaska, adopting from Texas and our home of record is Georgia and we are doing our homestudy through an agency here in Alaska so I would say no it doesn't have to be done in your home of record state. But with you stationed overseas and doing and international adoption things could be different. Now we did have to get a homestudy outline from Texas b/c some states require things during a homestudy that other states don't so we had to make sure that our agency here follows their outline. I hope this helped a little bit. I wish you all the best of luck on your adoption journey!!! Kathy

we are also stationed in germany and the social work services on our base is going to complete our homestudy for us. we are going through our home state, KS, with an adoption the only requirement for KS adoptions we haven't been able to complete over here so far is Mapp (model approach to partnerships in parenting) class which ks requires to be completed to be considered a waiting family. mapp is the only thing keeping us from being able to adopt a child from the states while stationed overseeas. so if your acs has no info find out where social serv. is on your base and talk to them

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Hello, My name is David Hayes. My wife, Stacia, and I adopted her neice and used a Home Study conducted by Jane Santos. We Live in Sicily, stationed in Sigonella. She was wonderfull to work with and is in Germany. We are interested in adopting again and plan on utilizing her services. Her contact information is: [url]www.janesantos.com[/url] janesantos@bigfoot.com PH: 06130-919768 FX: 06130-919769 Jane Santos Dr. Fritz Bockius Str. 9a 55270 Bubenheim, Germany

Hello David, I am also over in Sig. My husband is Navy and I work for MWR. How is your adoption going from here. We have just decided after a long time of pondering over adoption to go through with it. We are the very start of the process. Where will you be adopting from? Any info would be great to help us get going. Thanks, Jenny

My husband and I are in Hanau, Germany and are still looking for someone to do a homestudy. Jane Santos is now w/ Randy Barlow according to his website, but we haven't been able to get ahold of them yet. The email addresses on their website come back as unavailable, but we put in a call to them so hopefully we'll hear. Just wondering if anyone had other recommendations.