[maggie_va]

Maybe a 1.5/2 years ago, I was a member of a yahoo group for those interested in doing Indepedant adoptions from Belize.

There was one woman on the list who had completed an adoption and another who had submitted an application and dossier. She had originally been told by the social worker that adoption was possible but months went by and it became apparent that it wasn't likely to happen. The woman who had actually completed an adoption - the child was pre-identified and it may have been a family member's child but I can't recall. Anyway, I would look for that group and join to get the most up to date info. It was obvious to me it would be nearly impossible to adopt a child without some serious in country connections, so I dropped out of the group.

The process as it was then was to obtain an application from the office in Belize that handled adoptions - you could call them and ask them to mail it to you - put together a dossier and have a homestudy. Once they accepted your application in Belize, they were supposed to meet every month I think and review applications they had and match families with children. It was those meetings that never seemed to occur.

hope this helps...