Fingerprints

One of the things that you will need in order to adopt is to take your fingerprints. In the State of GA, you need to get your fingerprints by the FBI and the State of GA. In our situation, we live in a county so our fingerprints were taken at the Sheriff's office. The strange thing was we were fingerprinted at the jail. The hoops you jump through in our order to adopt. If you are going through the state foster agency, they will take care of that for you. In the State of GA, you attend 7 weeks of training and you are fingerprinted during one of the classes. Independent agencies may require you to get the fingerprint cards and get them yourself. Our fingerprints expired after one year so we had to have them taken again with our first adoption. Check with your local police department or sheriff and hopefully you won't have to go the jail to get that done.