[wannabamom]

Hi all,

Please answer this question if anyone has any info-

Do you have to do a Dossier for adopting from India, if you find a child on your own??????? OR is just a Home Study and I-171H enough???????????

Thanks,

[Bassette]

Yes you will have to provide a dossier regardless of circumstances. Your adoption case will enter the legal system and documents must be provided,...your dossier.

[sak9645]

You must comply with all of India's laws requiring what children are considered adoptable, what parents are considered acceptable, what agencies and orphanages you must use, what paperwork (dossier) is required by the Indian government, etc.

You must also comply with American laws concerning what children are considered "eligible orphans." For example, you cannot immigrate a child who has been living with married parents, or who has been living in an orphanage, but maintaining contact with birthparents.

Be aware that identified adoptions from almost any country can be problematic. All too often, the parent does not realize that a child does not meet the foreign government's requirements for adoption, or the U.S. government's requirements for immigration.

Sharon

[sak9645]

Please read information on adoption from India at the following websites:

1. U.S. State Department. http://travel.state.gov/family/adopt...untry_398.html

2. Indian Embassy. http://www.indianembassy.org/consula...chapter_2.html

3. Central Adoption Resource Administration (Indian government bureau involved in all adoptions). http://www.cara.nic.in/

4. ICHILD (great website for families adopting from India). http://www.ichild.org/basics.htm

Although I am not an expert on Indian adoption, my understanding from sources like the above is that you may not be able to do a private adoption. Unless things have changed, you have to work through a U.S. agency approved by CARA, and the child must be deemed eligible for international adoption by the Voluntary Coordinating Agency in India.

If you are an Indian citizen living in the U.S. on a permanent resident or other visa, remember that U.S. law requires at least one spouse to be a U.S. citizen, in order for a child to receive an adoption visa to enter the U.S.

Sharon

[Mindy82]

You will need nerves of steel to pursue an India Independent Adoption... Are you prepared to do all the work yourself? and learn all the laws of both countries/states?