How to adopt a relative from the Philippines?
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I want to adopt my 9 year old niece from the Philippines. I have a dual citizenship for the Philippines and the U.S. My niece's parents are having financial issues and I want to bring her to America. How do I do that and how long does it take?
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Why do you have to adopt her? Can't you just become her legal guardian so that you can make educational and medical decisions for her? Adoption is unnecessary in this case.
Check into getting a green card for her and proceed from there, but adoption isn't necessary.
How to adopt a nephew from the Philippines?
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Hi! My mom wants to adopt my cousin who is in the Philippines, My mom and I are both permanent resident(green card holders) here in the US. My question is how can my mom adopt my cousin who is in the Philippines? His parents doesn't about him anymore and my mom feels bad for doing nothing so she asked me to do a research. Its kind of sad but anyway I wish someone can give me the step-by-step or at least a website in which I could find information about this kind of stuffs. Thanks in advance.
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All Phillipine adoptions must go through ICAB -
This is a link to their FAQ
http://www.icab.gov.ph/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=13&Itemid=25
While the information is geared toward non-relative adoptions, they do mention in a few places that relative adoptions will be treated slightly differently. Spend some time at the site and use their contact information to contact someone there who can help you.
You're also going to have to check with US Immigration about bringing your cousin to the US as the adopted child of permanent residents. I looked into it very quickly for you and the easiest summary of the rules that I can find is here:
http://www.hooyou.com/adoption/bypr.html
How to Adopt and Chances of experiencing a sucessful adoption?
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In the future I plan on adopting four children. Doesn't matter where they are from or what nationality they are or their age. I just want two boys and two girls.
I'm going to have a nice career. I doubt I will have a mate and I'm not religious.
What can I expect when I go to adopt. How difficult is it to adopt?
I'm still in highschool, I just want to know the details now.
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Many African countries offer fairly painless (as far as adoptions go) adoptions; Ethiopia is an example. Most countries require that you are at least 25 and some require that you are 30 (China). You will have mounds of paperwork and home studies, but it's not all that bad from what I understand.
