Can only US citizens adopt?
My wife and I are both German citizens - we live in the US now since 3 years and are just receiving our green card (adjustment of visa status) to receive permanent US resident status.
We are interested in adopting a child and were just about to start the adoption process when we were given the following information by one of the agencies :
"You will be unable to adopt internationally until one of you is a US citizen. Domestically, you might want to check with the agencies and see if any of them would be willing to work with you. Typically, they may place an older or special needs child that is hard to place."
We couldn't believe that this is true. Does anyone know or can confirm this? Also - does anyone know what the reason behind this rule is (or is this even law?)? If I understand this correctly - yes we could adpot an US-child (an older one and/or with special needs) but we just do not qualify for any other international adoption.
That doesn't sound very logic or fair to us ...
bye
Denis
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