Home Study Services

A Home Study is a required overview of a hopeful adoptive family’s life, after which a social worker determines whether or not the family is ready to pursue adoption. In short, it’s a comprehensive report of you, your family, and your home environment. The Home Study will normally include but is not limited to: Reports, Documentation, Home Visits, and Interviews. We currently offer Home Studies for our Domestic and International Adoption Programs.

For our International Adoption Program, we offer Home Studies as a Primary and Supervised Provider. As a Primary Provider, the fees are included in the total cost of your International Adoption. As a Supervised Provider, fees will vary per country and administrational fees. Home Studies are required for all International Adoptions.

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Domestic Home Study Services

A Home Study for a Domestic Adoption is an overall assessment of you, your family, and your home environment to establish if you are a good candidate to receive a child for permanent placement in your home.

Home Study

At ICA, a Home Study will include, but is not limited to:

  • Meet & Greet
  • Orientation
  • Home Visits & Inspections
  • Assessments
  • Interview Visits
  • Legal Documents
  • Reports

ICA’s fees cover ICA services in preparing and completing your adoption Home Study or ICA’s cooperating agency fees.

Home Study Assessment and Supervision Only 

ICA offers a Home Study Assessment and Supervision Only, if another licensed agency is operating in a Primary capacity by matching and placing a child with you and you need a Home Study Assessment and Supervision after the child is placed.

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International Home Study Services

A Home Study for International Adoption is required in order for U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS). The Home Study assists UCSIS and the foreign country’s adoption authority in establishing its review of you, your family, and your home environment to determine if you and your home environment are suitable and eligible to adopt a child abroad and bring the child to the United States.

Primary Provider
As a Primary Provider, ICA provides services in preparing and completing your Adoption Home Study and all of these services are included in our fee agreement (Some of these items included within the fee are Social Worker Travel, legal documents, visits, and reports). The services within the Home Study are but not limited to:

  • Comprehensive Reports for USCIS and Country of Adoption
  • Interview Visits
  • Home Inspections

Supervised Provider
As a Supervised Provider, ICA offers Home Study services as a Supervised Provider. There are things to keep in mind when using ICA as your Supervised Provider:

  • The family we are providing Supervised Provider services for must live in the state of California.
  • A contract must be established between the 2 agencies that are providing Primary Provider and Supervised Provider services before we render our services.
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PUBLIC COMMENT OPPORTUNITY, The Intercountry Adoption Accreditation and Maintenance Entity (IAAME), a national accrediting entity designated by the US Department of State to provide Hague Accreditation and Approval, invites the public to provide comment on intercountry adoption service providers seeking Hague Accreditation, Approval or Renewal. You are invited to provide comments through the U.S. Department of State – Bureau of Consular Affairs website: https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/Intercountry-Adoption/about-adoption-service-providers/hague-complaint-registry.html

PUBLIC COMMENT OPPORTUNITY, The Intercountry Adoption Accreditation and Maintenance Entity (IAAME), a national accrediting entity designated by the US Department of State to provide Hague Accreditation and Approval, invites the public to provide comment on intercountry adoption service providers seeking Hague Accreditation, Approval or Renewal. You are invited to provide comments through the U.S. Department of State – Bureau of Consular Affairs website: https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/Intercountry-Adoption/about-adoption-service-providers/hague-complaint-registry.html