Project Oz Adoptions

101 E. Church Street, Suite 100
Tarboro, North Carolina, 27886
U.S.A.

I used this agency to adopt my son from Guatemala. When we started the process we were told to expetc it to take 5 - 9 months. It took us 22 months to bring our son home.

The agency had a lot of staff come and go in that time. We had three different Guatemalan facilitators. We were not always given accurate information about what was happening and it was usually blamed on the facilitators and lawyers in Guatemala who ‘don’t pass on that information’.

Towards the very end of our process it became very difficult to speak to anyone at the agency. Their Maryland office closed, more staff left, and the only number available was a toll free number where a woman answered the phone, took messages, and emailed them to the coordinator. We could not directly reach the coordinator at any time and she would often take dasy to respond to emails or messages.

Kathy
Absecon, New Jersey
U.S.A.

Project Oz Adoptions

101 E. Church Street, Suite 100
Tarboro, North Carolina, 27886
U.S.A.

We completed our adoption in Jan 2007. Since then, Project Oz has moved (left Maryland completely), changed ownership, and just dropped all of it’s former clients.
We adopted from Russia, and the adoption itself had more wrinkles and bumps then it should have, but the post adoption has been less than nil.

We are supposed to submit post adoption reports for 3 years after the adoption. We did get our six month report completed, but then the 1 year no one called us. Project Oz umbrellas (or did umbrella) under another, very nice reputable agency (which I will not name because they are wonderful and I have no issues with them). The acredited agency called us to say that Project oz told them we had been spoken to in December 2007 about our follow up! This is a complete lie, no one ever contacted us, and we are more than willing to complete our follow ups.

So now we are stuck, trying to find someone to do a post follow up visit, and no support at all from Project Oz. The agency that is accredited is the ones who are the most affected. If they cannot get the couples who adopted within 3 years of us to complete their follow ups, they could lose their accreditation, all because of Project Oz.

I would never recommend them for any adoptions. I’m sure they are no longer associated with any accredited agency in Russia, and if they are they should not be!

Margie
Southern Maryland, Maryland
U.S.A.