Searching for an adoption agency

Here we go again, the search for an agency to handle our adoption. This is not an easy task, and certainly not as easy as it once was. Tim is right at the age limit for adopting a child with no special needs. We really don't think we could handle a child with a moderate to serious special need, and it wouldn't be fair to walk deliberately into that, but, we may be forced into that program simply because the agencies are mostly telling us that Tim is already aged out, as the CCAA will consider a person to be 50 already when they are just 49 and four months. So, by the time we are paper ready, he will be considered over the age limit.

Alternatively, and as I suspected, Wasatch International Adoptions is indicating that not only will be be successful if we pursue a non special needs (NSN) adoption, but, that they will accept us as NSN applicants. So, they are strong candidates as our prospective agency search continues. CCAI has basically dismissed us for anything other than their special needs (SN) program, WACAP has leaned that way as well, and I haven't even asked HFS, our previous agency, as they seem to have changed quite a bit and aren't the same agency I remembered. Since they are an out of state agency, and Texas, the state they are in, has extra requirements in the homestudy (HS) process, I don't see any additional benefit in using them for our agency when there are agencies just as good who are either in Utah (ie WIAA) or do not have the additional requirements.

So, the search continues. Currently, I have sent for info packets and am on a couple of yahoo groups that give info on agencies etc, and, I am asking around the China adoption community of parents, both currently in the process and those who have completed at least one adoption since the Hague treaty changed so much about the process and which agencies are even approved to adopt from China.