We encourage prospective adoptive parents to obtain detailed receipts for all fees and donations paid, either by them directly or through your U. Improper payments violate applicable law or create the appearance of buying a child, and could put all future adoptions in Vietnam at risk.
The Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, for instance, makes it unlawful to make payments to foreign government officials to assist in obtaining or retaining business. Further, the IAA makes certain actions relating to intercountry adoptions unlawful, and subject to civil and criminal penalties. These include offering, giving, soliciting, or accepting inducement by way of compensation intended to influence or affect the relinquishment of parental rights, parental consent relating to adoption of a child, or a decision by an entity performing functions as a competent central authority, or to engage another person as an agent to take any such action.
Prospective adoptive parents are required to prepare two identical sets of application dossiers. All documents must be translated and authenticated by the Vietnamese Embassy or one of the Vietnamese consulates in the United States. Note: Any documents pertaining to adoption applications submitted to the Vietnamese authorities must be notarized and authenticated by the Vietnamese Embassy or Consulate in the United States and translated into Vietnamese. All documents submitted to the U.
Apply for a U. Once your adoption is complete, there are a few more steps to take before your child can head home. Specifically, you need to apply for three documents before your child can travel to the United States:.
Your child is not yet a U. The adoption service provider should assist adoptive parents with obtaining a Vietnamese passport for the adopted child. Applications should include the following:.
Passport applications may be submitted at one of the following offices of the Department of Immigration:. The regular processing timeframe is five working days. Embassy in Hanoi.
After the adoption is granted, visit the U. Embassy for a final review of the case, and, if applicable, the issuance of a U. This immigrant visa allows your child to travel with you and to seek admission to the United States. As part of this process, the child must complete the medical examinations with the assigned Panel Physician before the visa interview. For more information on scheduling the immigrant visa appointment and medical examination, please visit the U. Embassy in Hanoi website.
If the consular officer determines that the child is eligible for a visa, visa issuance after the final interview generally takes 24 hours. It is usually possible to provide a visa to adoptive parents on the same day as the immigrant visa interview.
You should verify current processing times with the U. Embassy in Hanoi before making final travel arrangements. Additional information on immigrant visa processing can be found on our website. Read more about the Child Citizenship Act of Once your child acquires U. Only the U. Department of State has the authority to grant, issue, or verify U.
Getting or renewing a passport is easy. In addition to a U. Where required, visas are affixed to your passport and allow you to enter a foreign nation.
Before you travel , it is always a good practice to investigate the local conditions, laws, political landscape, and culture of the country. The Department of State provides Country-Specific Information for every country in the world about various issues, including health conditions, crime, currency or entry requirements, and any areas of instability.
When traveling abroad during the adoption process, we encourage you to enroll with the Department of State through our Smart Traveler Enrollment Program STEP to receive important information from the Embassy about safety conditions in your destination country.
Enrollment makes it possible for the U. Embassy or Consulate in Vietnam, to contact you in an emergency, whether natural disaster, civil unrest, or family emergency. Whether there is a family emergency in the United States or a crisis in Vietnam, enrollment assists the U. Embassy or Consulate in reaching you. Your adoption service provider may be able to help you with this process.
Your adoption agency may be able to help you with this process. The form must then be certified by a competent home study preparer and authenticated by a Vietnamese diplomatic mission in the United States. Under Vietnamese law, adoption service providers are responsible for reminding adoptive parents to submit post-adoption reports. Many adoptive parents find it important to receive support after the adoption.
There are many public and private nonprofit post-adoption services available for children and their families. There are also numerous adoptive family support groups and adoptee organizations active in the United States that provide a network of options for adoptees who seek out other adoptees from the same country of origin.
You may wish to take advantage of all the resources available to your family, whether it is another adoptive family, a support group, an advocacy organization, or your religious or community services. The U. Department of Health and Human Services maintains a website, the Child Welfare Information Gateway , which can be a useful resource to get you started on your support group search. If you have concerns about your intercountry adoption process, we ask that you share this information with the U.
The Department of State takes all allegations of fraud or misconduct seriously. The Complaint Registry is an internet-based registry for filing complaints about the compliance of U. If you think your provider's conduct may not have been in compliance with accreditation standards, first submit your complaint in writing directly to your provider.
If the complaint is not resolved through the provider's complaint process, you may file the complaint through the Complaint Registry. Suite Washington, D. Adoptions uscis. Aug 12, Supplemental Notice on Authorized U. We applaud the end of the Special Adoption Program and hope it will result in more Vietnamese children being given the chance to be adopted, but as with anything new, it will take time to understand the full implications of this decision.
If you are interested in reviewing the updated Vietnam country information on the. In addition to sharing this news, we would like to make you aware of our need to find more adoptive families who actively practice the Catholic faith.
We place children from both public orphanages and private Catholic orphanages in Vietnam. In these situations, we will provide the orphanage Director with documentation from the prospective adoptive parents such as baptismal certificates and a letter of good standing from a parish priest to help assure the Director the family will honor their wishes. All Posts Current Events Education. Dillon International. Thhis means that certain international rules apply to your adoption, both for your agency, yourself and your prospective child.
One important factor is to choose a U. At this time only a few US adoption agencies are authorized to work in Vietnam adotions. Currently we have children who have been identified as being available for international adoption.
When deciding if adoption is right for your family, we understand there are a lot of questions. Schedule a time to talk to one of our adoption professionals. Start your adoption journey today! Dillon's application one is completely FREE. We understand that trying to choose a program that best fits your family can be overwhelming. We have created a country comparison chart to help you see all the programs at one time. We also have the option to start the adoption program without selecting a country program.
Families wanting to adopt a child with significant special needs or over 5 years may choose gender.
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