Ok this may be long so please bear with me. For those of you who don't know my husband and I have been trying to adopt two little boys that we had fostered while we lived in Texas. It has been one battle after another. Well we have been working on getting our foster care license in the state of Arizona (we were transferred due to military) We started the process to get our foster to adopt license in August of 2005. We find out today that the state of Arizona is probably not going to give us our license because we live on a military base and they can't do drop in inspections because we have to sign them on base. I always thought that getting a call from the military police saying we have a visitor at the front gate and need to come sign them in is a drop in inspection. But I guess the state of Arizona doesn't look at it like that. So I talked to my "mentor" the lady that works with the foster agency in Texas that has been with us since the oldest boy was placed with us June of 2004. She said that all I need to do is get an adoption homestudy done. I need to find a social worker who is licensed to do adoption homestudies. She said that this can cost anywhere from $100 - $600 which we don't really have the money for right now, however I'm sure that I can get some help from my inlaws with that. I was wondering if anyone has ever done an adoption before? Or if anyone by chance is a social worker that is licensed to do adoption homestudy. I have been told that once I get the homestudy done it has to be approved by 3 different people, and then it goes to ITC (international transfer committee) basically its a committee that decides what state is going to pay for these kids (they are special needs kids and get a subsidy pay each month) once ITC gets the case it takes anywhere from 3-6 months for it to be finalized. I haven't seen either one of the boys since August, my husband hasn't seen them since May. We have missed out on the baby's first steps, his first birthday. I have thought about seeing if by chance I could get an apartment in San Antonio and move back, get my foster care license and go from there. At least then the boys could be with me. I would miss my husband and I don't know that we could afford it. I guess right now I'm just going to play it by ear, but was wondering if anyone could offer some advice. I'm sorry I had to post this here, I know you guys don't want to know about my problems but just had to get it off my chest. It has been soo stressful with caseworkers not doing their job and paperwork getting messed up. Now to find out that because I live in military housing I won't be able to do foster care and help more kids out. It just really irritates me. Once again sorry for whining. Thanks for listening.