After 2 weeks of searching and gathering information, we finally came up a local agency to do our home study. We have to choose another adoption agency as our placement agency because the local one their China's program is pending. We favored one agency locates about 470 miles away from us for their director came from China and is a Christian.
I heard that paper chase for home study and dossier is very stressful. I never know it is more complicated for us because we were born in China.
Home study process becomes more restrict after America joined Hague Adoption Convention in April 2008.
It is totally new to our local adoption agency for a couple born in China to start an international adoption. Our social worker couldn't understand why we don't have a birth certificate. What happened in China after 1949 that each family had a little book which listed who lives at this address and the relationship with the head of the house, gender, political status, position. Any new born was required to be registered into this book which was called "hukouben" or household registration system. No birth certificate was issued to a new born until maybe after 1980.
