Home study: foster adopt vs international adopt

Ill have the answer to that soon! I adopted my daughter in 2006 from Ethiopia! Last month we finished our classes & finger printing, our first home study visit is July 11.

I adopted my son domestically, and just had my homestudy for foster-adopt. It was fairly similar, except that she asked for a copy of my previous homestudy, so she already had a lot of information, so it went a lot quicker. The only difference is that we did it all in one longer visit rather than two shorter ones, and she is not meeting with any of my references in person, just phone and letters.

We were planning to adopt internationally, from Burundi. We were at the "waiting for a referral" stage, so the homestudy and dossier were complete. We then met a little girl who needed an adoptive family, along with her sisters. Our same agency does foster/adopt, so we asked to update our homestudy to include foster/adopt. We thought it would be really simple because we already had a current homestudy from the same agency. We basically had to start over with everything. Since you are starting over anyway, I don't think you will find it much different. There is more training involved. Our agency had us do a "family activity" with our children while they evaluated us. The requirements for the home are a little more specific. We've now had four full homestudies, and they were all similar enough. All the best!

Not speaking from experience on the international side- but from friend's who have. More training-Less paperwork! :)