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Me and my husband found out almost two weeks ago that our nephew was placed in foster care. We are the only family that can step in and take care of him and that is what we de used to do. We are non emergency placement and we are not going to be licensed right away. We completed the background and fingerprint checks and results came back qualified. Our in home visit is Tuesday and we feel confident we will pass with flying colors. My question is if anyone knows how long after the home inspection will he be placed with us? With Memorial Day weekend coming up so soon we don't know if we should make plans with him in the picture or not. I'm hoping to get him this week because it would be nice to have all the family around so we can explain what's going on. Thanks for your help.
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I can't say how your county works or even how it works on the relative end. But we have had numerous kids go to relatives and most of them have been as soon as the home is approved. Like the same day. A few times we have had it happen a day or 2 later for various reasons (needing a carseat, arranging daycare)
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If he is in same state and either same or close by county it should go by quickly. I have had kids moved to family in just a few days. But they could have to wait until next court hearing so find out when that is.
Stay on the caseworker, they need to do right by your nephew and get him into your home sooner than later.
If you think that your nephew may be in care for quite awhile then I would encourage you to take the classes so that you can get kinship licensing and be able to get reimbursed some for your expenses.
Good luck
I think it really depends on the state. Our 10week old nephew was in care in MN and we were in AZ and they only required a local PD check initially. I flew to MN and brought him home the next weekend. We then had to work through ICPC and do our homestudy, fingerprinting, etc to move to adoption. However, his birthmom had signed an identified surrender to us and it was definately going to adoption. Our judge called it a relative "extended visit" until we were able to do everything. The judge didn't see the point in leaving him to bond with a foster family when we were planning to adopt. We finalized his adoption less than a year later.