URGENT!!!
KSS Adoptees May Only Have Until Early April, 2025 To Request BOTH A Birth Family Search AND Their Formerly Secret “KOREAN Adoptive Child Study Summary”,
Prior To The Movement Of ALL Korean Adoption Agency Files to NCRC on July 19th, 2025.

Given HOLT International’s recent LAST MINUTE “Notification” to Adoptees about the transfer of ALL Korean Adoption Agency files to NCRC, we think that KSS Adoptees should ASSUME that Early April, 2025 MAY ALSO be the LAST DATE that KSS can request BOTH a birth family search AND their formerly secret “KOREAN Adoptive Child Study Summary” directly from KSS, BEFORE the movement of ALL Korean Adoption Agency files to NCRC on July 19th, 2025.

However, we simply DO NOT KNOW what KSS’ last date for acceptance of new birth family search requests will be.

KSS will NOT likely send out any email to KSS Adoptees to notify them of their closure! We will most likely simply find out by word of mouth, AFTER KSS has already closed!

KSS (Korea Social Service) Adoptees:
Please contact us at paperslipadoptee@gmail.com IMMEDIATELY for FREE birth family search assistance!

Read below for COMPLETE instructions on how to request BOTH a birth family search AND your “KOREAN Adoptive Child Study Summary” from KSS!

For KSS (Korea Social Service) Adoptees ONLY, below is the process for birth family search:

PLEASE NOTE: You are NOT a KSS (Korea Social Service) Adoptee if your Korean Adoption Agency was one of the following OTHER Korean Adoption Agencies:

-HOLT Korea
-Eastern Social Welfare Society / ESWS (formerly Eastern Child Welfare Society / ECWS )
-Korea Welfare Society / KWS (formerly SWS)

PLEASE DO NOT CONTACT KSS IF KSS WAS NOT YOUR KOREAN ADOPTION AGENCY! Please do not waste the VERY LIMITED RESOURCES of KSS!!!

If you are NOT a KSS Adoptee please see:
The Same Questions That Korean Adoptees Ask All The Time

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KSS (Korea Social Service) Adoptees ONLY:

Please see the “NEW! Illustrated Step By Step Guide To Initiating Or Continuing a Birth Family Search Through KSS” about halfway down this page for complete instructions on how to officially request BOTH a birth family search AND your “KOREAN Adoptive Child Study Summary” (which was NOT obtainable prior to mid 2021):

https://www.paperslip.org/step-by-step-kss-birth-family-search

Please complete STEPS 1-4, then email your completed forms to us at paperslipadoptee@gmail.com for a FREE review of your forms, BEFORE you send them to KSS. This could save you YEARS of wasted time.

We will send you additional important instructions once you email us for a review of your form.

*Please note that if you have NOT followed our procedure since mid-2021, that you will NOT likely have the formerly secret “KOREAN Adoptive Child Study Summary”. KSS did NOT regularly provide this document for Adoptees until mid-2021, and you have to SPECIFICALLY request it using KSS’ forms.

While KSS Adoptees commonly have the “ENGLISH Adoptive Child Study Summary”, they are NOT likely to have the “KOREAN Adoptive Child Study Summary”. See examples of these documents below:

ENGLISH Adoptive Child Study Summary
(KSS Adoptees often have this document)

KOREAN Adoptive Child Study Summary
(KSS Adoptees do NOT often have this formerly secret document)

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If you are a KSS Adoptee and you are on Facebook and are not already a member of the private KSS Adoptee only group "KSS Cribmates", please be sure to join, as this is the best way to keep up with the latest updates with the KSS Adoptee community and birth family search. Please be sure to answer the membership questions:

KSS Cribmates:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/1472813756273368

Please note that while we do NOT allow NON-KSS Adoptees to join, we can help the adoptive parents, spouses, and children of KSS Adoptees through email. Simply email us at paperslipadoptee@gmail.com

Thank you!