Reference letters and home studies, background checks and biometrics, dossiers and immigration approvals. It's all part of becoming a family when you choose to adopt internationally! Come learn more about adoption from someone who has navigated the process not once but twice.lt;brgt;lt;brgt;Leslie and her husband, Raj, made the decision to build their family through international adoption. They re-searched adoption for two years before formally be-ginning the process in March of 2009. In the summer of 2010 Leslie and Raj traveled to Ethiopia to meet their son (then 21 months old) and bring him home. In early 2013 they decided to expand their family. They recently traveled to China to complete the adoption of their 4 1/2 year-old daughter.lt;brgt;lt;brgt;Leslie grew up in the St. Louis area. She currently works in education at the Litzsinger Road Ecology Center.