International adoption process?

If you are only a Canadian citizen and living in Canada, then you will most likely need to adopt through a Canadian adoption agency.

BUT if you are moving to America and plan on becoming a permanent resident then some agencies will allow you to adopt... only if you're a permanent resident of the US!

Although, a lot of agencies will require you to have US citizenship before adopting in the US.

If you are planning on moving to the USA, then I suggest you look up American agencies and search their website to see about adoption requirements.

As a Canadian resident, you adopt through a Canadian agency. Same for the U.S.

Not wanting to be pregnant because it will push your body out of shape or cause pain is not a good enough reason to not want to be pregnant. Another woman shouldn't have to lose her child in order for you to become a parent.

If you plan to adopt internationally, why not just move to that country (Ukraine, for example)? Do you speak the language? Do you practice their customs and religion? Are you well-versed in the culture? Do you look Ukrainian? If not, why would you want to adopt from there? A child who has been orphaned (and very few of the children available for adoption are truly orphans -- most of them have either been taken by black market baby sellers or given up by their parents because they were told that they can't properly raise their own children) has already lost everything he has ever known. Why would you remove him from everything that is familiar to him just so YOU can have a child? That's very selfish.

There are tens of thousands of children in both Canada and the U.S. foster care systems who need homes and loving families. Why not adopt one (or more) of them? The cost is very minimal and most of it is reimbursed to you by the government. International adoptions cost $30,000+.

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Keep in mind that in 10+ years when you would be eligible to adopt (most agencies and countries have age requirements), the entire process could be vastly different from what it is now.

Your best bet would be to contact a local agency and ask the questions directly to them.

Hello, my name is Chelsea Cha, and I am a grade 11 student at Earl Haig Secondary School. For my Family Studies research project, I am conducting a study of the factors that encourage couples and single parents to access international adoption agencies to adopt children. You have been chosen for an interview because you are in the process of adopting or have adopted a child through international adoption. Your identity will not be revealed. I am only interested in finding out generally why people choose this form of adoption. No individual answers will be used, just group answers or percentages. Individual answers will not be discussed with agency.Please answer the survey through the link below. Thank you.

https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/internationaladopti...

You know what'd be much much MUCH kinder? If you moved to Russia or the Ukraine and learned their language and life instead.

International Adoption, Fraud, and "Orphans" @ http://www.momlogic.com/2010/07/international_adop...

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Western parents who adopt from the developing world often believe they're in the midst of a double blessing: expanding their families by bringing home deeply wanted children and at the same time offering those children - orphans! - a happier, better life than they ever could have led in their own impoverished countries. There's nothing wrong with this belief - these parents' hearts are in the right place - but a recent article suggests that in many cases, the facts of international adoption aren't what they seem.

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Child trafficking disguised as adoption @ http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=546...

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__Children not commodities of international trade__

Of all the ways children are trafficked, however, one of the most undetected remains through international adoption, which has been on the rise for years, from 6,472 in 1992 to 22,728 in 2005 in the U.S. alone.

While parents around the globe are presented with opportunities to rescue orphans from impoverished backgrounds, many adoptions are inadvertently masking and perpetuating the dark world of child trafficking. Prospective parents must beware that just because visas are issued doesn't mean the child is not a victim of the adoptive market. Child trafficking is not just a sexual and labor trade – it's pro-adoption, too!

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See also:

Re-evaluating Adoption: Validating the Local @ http://dissidentvoice.org/2008/02/re-evaluating-ad...

The Baby Trade @ http://www.againstchildtrafficking.org/2010/12/the...

Child Laundering as Exploitation: Applying AntiTrafficking Norms to Intercountry Adoption Under the Coming Hague Regime @ http://works.bepress.com/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?artic...

http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=+site:www.adoptio...

It's entirely possible to help someone parent without snatching their child away from them: Each One Help One @ http://www.values.com/your-inspirational-stories/1...

My aparents have had to watch as their kid goes through all of the agony and trauma that comes with being adopted. They have had absolutely no help in dealing with any of this - as all good parents do, they winged it. It's testament to their brilliance that I'm even remotely sane (hush you lot at the back! :p) and a functioning member of society.

Adoption screws kids up. It's not a fact that the adoption mongers like seeing said in public, but it's true. Not every kid, obviously - some on here are happy to've been adopted, but a surprisingly high percentage of us grow up deeply screwed up.

I was abandoned to adoption at seven months old. I honestly and truly wish that I'd been aborted instead of abandoned to adoption, so please be prepared for the fact that any kid you adopt could grow up to be as screwed up as me (I'm almost 40, so legally "grown up" in pretty much everywhere).

Actually, if you adopt, the kid still won't be your own. You need to be able to deal with the fact that being a parent to an adoptee is NOT the same as being a parent to your own child. It will not elicit the same feelings in you, and your gut reactions will be off because there is no genetic similarity to recognise. Yes, you'll learn it all in time, and if you're a good a'rent, you won't even take out your frustration at the kid not being your own child on the child you adopt instead.

I suggest you read the links and blurb mentioned in the Best Answer (as chosen by voters) @ http://uk.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=201... and then read back through a few months worth of resolved questions here in Y!A adoption.

Comprehend that lot, and you'll be about ready to adopt. :)