How To Adopt Internationally

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How To Adopt Internationally is an up-to-date, practical, step-by-step guide for "Agency-Directed" and independent adoptions overseas. How To Adopt Internationally is designed for prospective parents and organized around 23 steps that cover everything from learning about the international adoption process and organizing a home study, to fulfilling state requirements, choosing a country to adopt from, working through emigration and immigration, traveling abroad, and adjusting to the new life with a child. Enhancing the value of How To Adopt Internationally is the "Compendium", up-to-date information on all child-placing countries. For each of the countries listed there is a summary of adoption laws and requirements for adopting parents as well as the government authority in charge of adoption and the number of children adopted by U. S. citizens for the last two years. Basic geographic an demographic information (including language, currency, religion, and other information) is also provided for each country. How To Adopt Internationally is essential reading for anyone considering an adoption abroad.

This best-seller is a MUST-HAVE Book if you are adopting internationally

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Average Customer Review:Number of Reviews: 3

A reader from Alaska, USA , October 11, 1998
A great guide for International Adoption requirements
We just recently purchased this book from Amazon. com and it's a wonderful guide for those just beginning the adoption process or those currently involved in adopting internationally. This guide is now currently (October 98) aiding us to expedite our adoption via the comprehensive information and step by step guide to fulfilling all international requirements. A great find!

A reader from New Mexico, USA , January 28, 1998
Book provides an explicit course for international adoption.
This book provided an explicit course for the adoption of our children from Russia. We worked with an agency that provided the help we needed for the Russian side of the adoption. We largely guided ourselves, with the aid of this book, through the US/INS international requirements. Following the adoption, the guidance for the readoption procedure in the States, and the procedure for obtaining citizenship for the children was almost the only guidance we could find without paying an attorney. We came across only one discrepancy. The guidance in the book reads to mail all INS-required paperwork to the nearest major INS office (offices listed in an appendix). We learned that the paperwork was to be turned over to our local INS office, and not to a major INS office. Overall, we are AMAZED that such a clearly defined path for international adoption procedures has been laid out by the authors. We did compare this book to other "how to adopt" books and found that this book clearly stands out in its field; the procedures are numbered and examples of what the forms look like are published. To the authors. . . Thank you!

A reader , July 19, 1997
What a helpful and easy to read book!
I had been searching for a book that would spell out all the information I needed to adopt internationlly. This book does the trick! Now, I know where to go, who to contact, and exactly what to expect in the process! I was so thrilled to read this book that I want to pass on my recommendation to anyone who is looking to adopt internationlly. The Erichsen's really know their stuff and show it!