If you live in Colorado and your kids came home on a IR-4 visa and you have yet to validate the adoption (re-adopt), the instructions for validating a foreign adoption are here: http://www.courts.state.co.us/
Go to forms
Then adoption
Then validation of foreign adoption
You can print instructions there and find some of the forms you will need for the process.
The background checks are time sensitive - we submitted our packet to the court with only 2 days to spare, so my husband's recommendation is to send in the required fingerprint-based criminal history check to the CBI (Colorado Bureau of Investigation) 3-4 weeks after submitting to the FBI. (We waited for our FBI background check to return to us before submitting to the CBI, which was not necessary. FBI check takes 12-18 weeks, the CBI check takes 4 weeks.)
He would also suggest completing the TRAILS (Colorado Department of Human Services) background check at the same time you submit the CBI background check.
If you have any questions, he would be glad to help you. ☺
3 kind words:
ridiculous.
Thanks for posting this. I so need a kick in the but to validate Ariam's adoption. The problem is is that I have not BELIEVED you have to redo all the fingerprinting. But I guess your post confirms that our social worker is not insane. :(
It was great to meet you at Genna. Can I email if we have any questions through the process?
Oh, also, how long does it take to get a passport? Can we apply for that somewhere in the process or do we have to wait until some point in the future? Oh, so confusing. Amanda
Hi Amanda, it was great to meet you too. :)
I don't know how long it takes to get a passport, we didn't apply for them for our kids. If you're planning on changing your child's name, the validation of a foreign adoption is where that happens, so you may want to do the validation before getting a passport so their name on their passport can be correct.
Yes, if you have any questions throughout the process, please feel free to ask. We learned as we went and had lots of questions too.
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