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Just thought you all should know what a Brazilian adoption lawyer recently told me:

To be quiet frank, the possibility of a foreign couple/applicant adopting an infant is remote.

CEJA prepares and maintains a list of the children to be adopted and another list for the applicants.

Except for Brazilian couples (to whom priority in adoptions is granted), the order of the applications is strictly respected independently of the applicants’ familiarity with the country.

As Brazilian couples clearly prefer to adopt infants (children aged 0-1 year) and they are granted priority, whenever an infant is included in the list, he/she is immediately chosen by a Brazilian couple (just for you to have an idea, whenever an infant is included in the list, in 1 hour it is chosen by a Brazilian couple).