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I know a year ago it was taking FOREVER to get redacted files. Does anyone have recent experience for how long it is taking now? They let us adopt last year without ever seeing the redacted files, which was very fortunate. We adopted last June and finally received the files this January, 7 months after the adoption was finalized. I don't know that we will be fortunate enough to get around waiting again. For one of our cases, they just let us read the actual files. I know the case worker for our other kids said she would order the files, so that makes me think that she plans to do it by the book. I'm hoping they have streamlined the system in the last several months. Have they?
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I agree, I wouldn't count on it. I just got Li'l Singer's Birth Certificate, SIX months after the adoption.
I have been wondering the same thing though. My current placement is from a failed kinship adoption attempt, TPR has already occurred, so I am hoping that the files have been ordered, but seeing I am not kin, they might need to be reordered.
We don't go back to court until Aug, where they will then make a plan for permanency. SW says she needs to check on family, but knows that there are none, otherwise they would have stepped up in the past nearly four years. Besides, CW and her supervisor don't want to move Sunny because she is doing so amazingly well after only being in my home for a month.
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We met with the adoption worker (I don't know her real title, only that she negotiates subsidy and has us sign all that sort of paperwork) last week. It seems our area has an unofficial policy that we just sign paperwork at adoption saying we have not yet received the files but still wish to adopt. Most of the case workers let us read the files in the office, but they do not make us wait for the redacted files. She said she had a family that wanted to wait, and they have been waiting almost 2 years! We were able to adopt last summer without the redacted files, should be adopting next week without the redacted files, and hopefully again in August without the redacted files. I am very thankful for how it works here! I just hope they don't get in trouble for doing it this way and that a ton of families get to adopt without waiting. We aren't waiving our right to the files. We are just saying that we don't mind waiting until after adoption. I have received my son's files and have read the files for the children we adopt next week.
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I was told by our CPS case manager that I have to wait for the redacted file, they aren't allowing adoptions to proceed without it. I guess since yours was in process already it was fine but I have yet to receive anything and TPR happened in October.
Honestly I don't really mind since this way I don't have to do any OA visits with bio mom since CPS mandated no visits with her until finalization. He doesn't even recognize her anymore.
newtoaz
Are you all waiting for redacted files for kids already in your home? Is the wait the same for kids matched to an adoptive home? 6-8 months seems like an awfully long time for a prospective adoptive parent to wait before he/she can meet the kids with whom they were matched.
Ally_Deville
I was told by our CPS case manager that I have to wait for the redacted file, they aren't allowing adoptions to proceed without it. I guess since yours was in process already it was fine but I have yet to receive anything and TPR happened in October.
Honestly I don't really mind since this way I don't have to do any OA visits with bio mom since CPS mandated no visits with her until finalization. He doesn't even recognize her anymore.
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newtoaz
Are you all waiting for redacted files for kids already in your home? Is the wait the same for kids matched to an adoptive home? 6-8 months seems like an awfully long time for a prospective adoptive parent to wait before he/she can meet the kids with whom they were matched.
My understanding (which is only slightly more than nil) is that adoptive matches are different and wouldn't require a six month wait from match to reading files. Not sure exactly how that works, but....I really can't imagine. I'm *really* hoping we hear something about two adoptive situations this week. I simply can't imagine they could match us this month but we couldn't take placement until the new year because of the files! That wouldn't even make sense on a few levels. And how sad for the children to be in limbo so long. I will ask if I get the chance :)
My understanding (which is only slightly more than nil) is that adoptive matches are different and wouldn't require a six month wait from match to reading files. Not sure exactly how that works, but....
I really can't imagine. I'm *really* hoping we hear something about two adoptive situations this week. I simply can't imagine they could match us this month but we couldn't take placement until the new year because of the files! That wouldn't even make sense on a few levels. And how sad for the children to be in limbo so long.
I will ask if I get the chance :)
All of the counties are handling this differently. Harris county (Houston) required some friends of ours to wait 8 months on the files before meeting the child they were matched with. They had to read the files BEFORE ever meeting the child. Now that the child is in their home, they are waiting the normal 6 months before finalization.
North of Houston, we were matched with a boy & were allowed to speak with his drs, therapist, CASA worker, and read his psych eval; then we began scheduling to meet him. They would not have let us finalize without the files, but they would have allowed us to meet him.
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Irish02
All of the counties are handling this differently. Harris county (Houston) required some friends of ours to wait 8 months on the files before meeting the child they were matched with. They had to read the files BEFORE ever meeting the child. Now that the child is in their home, they are waiting the normal 6 months before finalization.
We were given the redacted files for our kids one week after we adopted them! I have no idea when they were ordered, likely a year ago after TPR, but the tech knocked on our door yesterday and gave them to us. This time it was all on a CD. In January of this year we were just handed a giant box full of the files for our son who we adopted months earlier. The CD is preferable, I do believe!