currently adopting

We are currently adopting my Orphans niece and nephews in the Philippines. We just sent our preliminary application to our Adoption Agency (Catholic Charities of Baltimore) with that is our apllication to ICAB (Philippines agency who handles the Inter country adoption), their web site is [url]www.skyinet.net/~icaba/[/url] We are leaving in Virginia Beach, VA. Our agency told us that it will take 3 to 12 months for the assesment / investigation of the child/ren, then they want us to do the home study after that. The trip from east coast to phils. is 24 hours. The usual itenirary is, like if your leaving from VA., VA. to Detriot is 1 1/2 hours, then 2 hours stop over, next is Detriot to Japan, 13 hours (straight), then 1 1/2 hours stop over, then your final destination is from Japan to phils is 3 1/2 hours. This is no joke! Try to check with Northwest Airline ([url]www.nwa.com[/url]) they have a pretty dicent special airfare about adoption: 65% off. Good Luck to us.

Thanks for your reply. We just sent in our dossier and homestudy and INS approval was about a month ago. That's a long trip! We are thinking about taking our 7 yr old with us. Thanks- Elisa

You're welcome! Just remember that it is always warm to hot weather in the Philippines.

We are on the ball now doing our Home Study, because the Child Study report for my sister children are done. We are getting more excited and nervous. It took 6 1/2 months for that. Good luck to us

Just wondering if you have gone to get your new little one? We started our adoption paperwork on Mar. 19,2003, and are going to pick up our new daughter in just about 3 weeks, which is almost exactly one year! My husband is Filipino, and was adopted from the same orphanage we are going to pick our daughter up from. They told us that is why it was faster than normal, and that it usually takes 1 1/2 years to go. Jen