Other counties provide Independent services through the State District Offices. Private Adoption Services Agencies provide direct adoption services which vary from one agency to another as defined by their license. Also, it has authority to assess birth parents and prospective adoptive parents, to place a child for adoption, to supervise that adoptive placement, and to remove a child from an unsuitable adoptive placement. Services are provided by the Department's District Offices and delegated counties. In Intercountry Adoptions, foreign-born children includes completion of the adoption in the child's native country or in California.
Federal law makes a special immigration visa available.
A Noncustodial Agency works cooperatively with a Full Service agency to match prospective adoptive parents with children who are under the care, custody, and control of the FS agency. Noncustodial agencies also can assess prospective adoptive families, and, in cooperation with FS agencies, supervise adoptive placements. However, NC agencies are not authorized to remove a child from an unsuitable placement, nor can they assume care, custody and control of a child, nor can they make adoptive placements. Religious Restrictions are those that restrict services to persons of a particular Faith, such as Evangelical, Mormon, and the like. Adoption of Special Needs Children is one in financial assistance if available to allow for adoption of a child who otherwise might not be adopted.