The NCRC Obstacle Course. You are probably NOT ready.

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Navigating the NCRC process feels like a guided tour of the DMZ led by Kafka.

If you are planning a trip to Korea for birth family search, we cannot more strongly recommend that you begin to prepare to navigate the NCRC process at least 3 or 4 months in advance. We also strongly recommend that you NOT book your trip to Korea until you KNOW that you can get the appointments you need! Don’t waste your time and money going to Korea if you are unable to book the appointments you are traveling to Korea for!

Given all of the hurdles and obstacles which Adoptees have maddeningly experienced for at least a decade with the NCRC / KAS process, you are bound to fail to navigate the new birth family search process without quite a LOT of advance planning.

We have provided PLENTY of free resources throughout this site to help you navigate this process. We have poured thousands of hours into trying to make the process easier — however, there are so many components, it is impossible to create a “one size fits all” game plan for birth family search.

Most Adoptees who are new to birth family search have no idea how to piece all of this together. We can repackage information until the cows come home, but we can’t make Adoptees read all of the information we provide. (We definitely understand how overwhelming it is). Nor can be address all of the different scenarios which Adoptees may have in their individual cases, outside of the context of an individual Zoom session.

We fully understand and sympathize with the fact that Adoptees new to birth family search are very often dazed and confused by the decades of gaslighting we experience thanks to our often (though not always) falsified paperwork and background narratives.

Unfortunately, birth family search right now is a bit of a moving target. There are many things which are uncertain and which may change in the future as regards search.

We cannot more strongly recommend that you peruse our Paperslip BLOG posts on a regular basis. We also cannot more strongly recommend that if you are new to search, that you take advantage of our paid one-hour Zoom consultations, at least 3-4 months in advance of any trip you are planning to Korea for search. Birth family search is the new Hunger Games, and for most of us, it’s unfortunately not going to get any easier going forward.

Good luck out there navigating The NCRC Obstacle Course! Sadly, it is designed to make Adoptees FAIL. Knowledge, however is power. We hope to impart some of that knowledge to you through Paperslip.