File Review Guideline Pre-NCRC Transfer

For anyone doing a file review prior to the NCRC transfer, you can download a copy of the file review guideline here. This is 100% free, if you add it to the cart and check out there will be no charge. Or you can click on this link. File Review Guideline Pre-NCRC.

Food for thought on the upcoming file transfer to NCRC. I’m sure you’re all aware of this by now, but there was something interesting that came up from a Holt adoptee that I was helping in Korea this past week. She managed to do a file review with them, and they came out with something she had never seen before. A heartfelt letter from one of her parents, which they had never shown to her before in the 20+ years she’s been contacting Holt. This parent had passed away back in the early 2000’s, so it wasn’t like the parent had recently signed the waiver to allow contact.

Why is this important? Holt knew that they were not going to include this letter in the upcoming file transfer. They can’t possibly scan all the documents that are in our files, and they will be picking out only the relevant information and sending that to NCRC. Kind of like the condensed version that they send over to NCRC, when you ask them for help doing BFS prior to 2025. So, a letter from your parents isn’t considered “important” enough information to be scanned, but to us it would mean everything. 

Holt will be stopping new cases on March 30th, and this letter has been withheld from the adoptee until now. Maybe Holt decided that now was the time to release this letter, instead of letting it get shredded and lost forever. Had she not come to Korea and done a file review in person, she would never have known it existed. 

I made a pre-file transfer guideline if you are doing a file review before the transfer, with a special note to KSS adoptees to follow the procedure already in place. Do you have a letter from your parents in your paperwork? There’s only one way to find out, and that’s to come to Korea and do an in-person file review.