International adoption

[anothermama]

Hi everyone! Has anyone here successfully completed an international adoption while in Western Australia? If so, can you give me more insight into the time frame and process? Thanks!

[BeccaD]

Sorry, havent been through the international adoption process, but we are up to the point of application for local adoption, having attended all the seminars over the last 12 months.

Have you been to an information session? They give you a lot of information about timeframes, places you can adopt from etc

[troopie]

Hi, we have completed inter country adoption from China. We have a beautiful little girl and are on the way to no 2. It took about 2 years from beginning to end, but that was a couple of years ago. Now you are looking at about 7 years wait. The older the child the less the wait. Where are you in the process? Good luck.

[troopie]

More info. You apply and receive an information pack. Go to iterviews to make sure you know what you are getting into paperwork and time frame wise and it's really what you want. Then about a year of paperwork and meetings about child rearing need to be attended. Then more paper work, more meetings. Then you just wait........and wait......and wait....! Then when you think your head is about to explode, ......you wait again! Then just when you feel like giving up and you think you couldn't possibly cry anymore....they call you to tell you that you are on a list in the country you have chosen to adopt from! Then, guess what.....you wait....and wait! Then just when you are about to give up again you get a call saying they have found a child they think is suited to you. By that time you have waited so long you think it's a prank call and are tempted to hang up. I ran to the car pulling up my trousers I was so excited! (sorry neighbours) You get to the adoption agency to see her photo and at that point it wouldn't matter if she had 3 heads! Then you feel reluctant to leave the building incase they change their minds. Dad goes to work next day to brag and then you go to china and pick up your daughter. All through the time you have been waiting you are filling out mountains of paper work, explaining to them Why grandma is a bikie and paying money hand over fist. But it's all good in the end. A bit like childbirth, you quickly forget the hard bits and are silly enough to do it again.:laughing: