Family Adoption Consultants / Foreign Adoption Consultants / FAC / F&CS Foster Care and Adoption Service (Michigan).
Please Note: If you are adopted through this KSS’ Partner Western Adoption Agency (in the time frames during which KSS worked with this Partner Western Adoption Agency) then you should initiate a Birth Family Search through KSS in Seoul. For KSS Adoptees ONLY, please see: Step by Step Korea Social Service (KSS) Birth Family Search.
Adoptees have reported having experienced difficulty getting file information from FAC. We highly recommend you file a FOIA request.
If you are a US KSS / Family Adoption Consultants / Foreign Adoption Consultants / FAC / F&CS Foster Care and Adoption Service (Michigan / Ohio / Wisconsin, etc.) Adoptee, we highly recommend starting a Birth Family Search with KSS in Seoul. (For KSS / LSS Adoptees ONLY - Please do NOT start a Birth Family Search with KSS if you are NOT a KSS Adoptee).
If you are not sure what your Korean Adoption Agency was, we highly recommend filing a simple and FREE FOIA request for your immigr. records first.
1985 - 2011 or 2012: KSS adopts to Family Adoption Consultants / Foreign Adoption Consultants / FAC / F&CS Foster Care and Adoption Service (Michigan) in the US since 1985.
KSS and FAC:
A little information about KSS and FAC's (Family Adoption Consultants of Michigan, US) history:
KSS and FAC have been working together since 1985.
“Two agencies were involved in facilitating your adoption: Korea Social Services (KSS) and Family Adoption Consultants (FAC). Family Adoption Consultants is now F&CS Foster Care and Adoption Services. KSS provided care for you until all of the legal processing was complete and you traveled to the U.S. to be with your adoptive parents. It is likely that you spent some time at KSS’s children’s home and then lived with a foster family until your adoption. FAC provided services to your adoptive parents so they could be approved and prepared to adopt a child from Korea. KSS and FAC have been working together since 1985. We continue to maintain a partnership and work together to provide post-adoption services for adoptees and their adoptive families. Both agencies believe that adoption is a life-long process that continues even after the legal process has been completed.”
The Eckels Adoption Agency, Inc.
Update: As of November 14th, 2023 we have learned that Eckels Adoption Agency of Pennsylvania partnered with FAC: Family Adoption Consultants / Foreign Adoption Consultants / FAC / F&CS Foster Care and Adoption Service (Michigan). So if you were adopted through ECKELS Adoption Agency from 1985-2012, you may have been a KSS (Korea Social Service) Adoptee.
More info here:
Pound Pup Legacy
Eckels Adoption Agency (Diakon Swan) Website
FAC May Have Partnered With Other US Adoption Organizations.
Update: As of November 14th, 2023, we have realized the FAC may have partnered with multiple other US based Adoption Agencies.
More info here:
Pound Pup Legacy