We have narrowed the agency search down to two, Adoption Advocates International (AAI) and Wasatch International Adoption Agency(WIAA). AAI was recommended by a friend that just came home with her little one from China, and WIAA is local, and our social worker is contracted with them.
If we go with AAI, we will need to have him sign an agreement with them, but, he knows that drill pretty well.
The pros of AAI are that they will accept Tim's age for NSN, which WIAA said they would as well, except for one hitch. WIAA does not have an SN program to switch to if NSN for whatever reason ends up not being the right path for us, and AAI does have an SN program. In an email from the AAI rep, they stated they did not believe Tim's age would be a problem as long as we got our paperwork to China before he turn 51 in April of next year, but, they also made sure we knew we could switch to SN if we wanted. I just don't want to end up signing with them and find out they had no intention of advocating for NSN, and we have to go SN, when WIAA would have advocated for us.
Ugh!! what a decision.
Well, we will spend some time praying about it, and see what we decide. We have time, since we don't intend to apply to any agency until after our old house's sale closes the first week in September, and right now, we are busy getting kids started back to school.
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