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How can I adopt an orphan from Haiti?

Can I adopt a child from Haiti at 25 and what is the process?

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    UNICEF believes that there is now a black market in abducted Haitian babies and young children who are being sold to adoptive parents from foreign countries by kidnappers misrepresenting themselves as legitimate adoption services. Here's a link to an article in the German press describing the abduction of 15 babies and toddlers from a Haitian hospital. http://bazonline.ch/ausland/amerika/Unicef-15-Kinder-aus-Spitaelern-in-Haiti-verschwunden/story/27468701 If you don't read German, you can get a translation from Google. http://translate.google.com/?sl=en&tl=ru#de%7Cen%7C There is a good chance that the parents of some of the Haitian "orphans" who have been so hastily evacuated from Haiti are STILL ALIVE and wondering where their children are. If you've adopted one of them, then you'll have to decide whether to send the child right back to Haiti (at your expense) or join the Haitian abductors in the crime of kidnapping as an accessory after the fact. Over-eager sentimentalist do-gooders often do more harm than good. They go in to a place with many good intentions, but little real information, and no safe-guards, and they blunder about making a big mess, while handing a pile of money to criminals who secretly laugh at them.

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Until further notice no one is being allowed to adopt children from Haiti. Only people who were matched with kids BEFORE the disaster are being allowed to get the children. Also the rules for adoption of Haitian childern would not allow you to adopt. Qualifications to Adopt From Haiti According to the DECREE OF APRIL 4 TH, 1974 , ON ADOPTION, REINFORCING THE RIGHTS OF THE ADOPTEE IN HIS/HER NEW FAMILY, current Haitian government policies and practices, and U.S. immigration laws, you must meet the following guidelines to qualify for a Haiti adoption: 1. Single women: * who are U.S. citizens. * who are between 35 and 55 years of age at the time of dossier submission. * who have no more than two birth children*. * The Haitian Government only considers the number of birth children in the home when determining a family's qualification to adopt from Haiti. 2. Legally married heterosexual couples: * in which at least one applicant is a U.S. citizen. * who are between 35 and 55 years of age at the time of dossier submission. If the couple is childless due to infertility, the minimum age is 30 years. * who have been married a minimum of ten years. However, applicants may be married at least five years with an exclusive relationship with the current spouse totaling ten years in length. (This length of relationship must be substantiated in the home study.) 3. Applicants must be in good physical and mental condition necessary to provide responsible care for an adopted child. 4. Applicants’ income must meet the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Service (USCIS) requirements as specified in Form I-864P for 125% of the current Poverty Guideline: http://www.uscis.gov/files/form/I-864P.pdf 5. Applicants who meet the above qualifications and have no more than two birth children in the home of the current marriage are eligible to adopt a child up to 13 years of age.

Its very nice that you want to do that for the children who lost their parents or orphans, but what about American children?! There are millions of babies & children here waiting for a loving home. Why go to another country when there's so many here?

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