• Confirm the notices and return receipt cards have been filed.
• Ensure that the notice complies with 25 C.F.R. § 23.11(d) and (e), if appropriate.
• Encourage the parent to promptly return the ICWA information form if the parent has not already done so.

If the child has been found to be an Indian child: 

• Check that appropriate notice has been sent.
• Check that notice is received by the tribe, tribes or BIA at least ten days before the scheduled hearing.
• Check that the notices and return receipt cards (or copies thereof) have been filed with the court.
• Request the court make appropriate findings.

If there has been a finding the child is not an Indian child:

• Check that no new information has surfaced that would bring this finding into doubt or would trigger the need to send notice.