Anonymous wrote:I remember watching a program (60 minutes? )? where a couple from Germany adopted 2 healthy black children as babies from the US. Less stigma and prejudice in Germany than in the US.

For some reason, white people in the US do not want healthy adoptable black babies. Some even call themselves liberals.

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Anonymous wrote:Isn't a G4 visa a nonimmigrant visa given to people working at an international organization? How could you foster or adopt if you have no security in staying in the country?

She probably cannot foster but adopt? Come on. Americans adopt kids from other countries all the time. Why not adopt an American child and move him elsewhere? He or she will retain their citizenship regardless.

This sounds inaccurate. Once the adoption is final, the child will have the citizenship of his/her parents. I’ve known many people who adopted from abroad — the Chinese baby became American like her parents, same for the Nigerian and Guatemalan babies. I have never heard of an adopted child being able to keep her citizenship of birth after an overseas adoption is completed. It would be very surprising if American adoptees were allowed to do so. The whole situation sounds bizarre.

It doesn't really matter what it sounds like to you. The baby may obtain the citizenship of their adopted parents but all that baby has to do after 18 is walk into a U.S. Embassy anywhere on the planet and produce a birth certificate proving they were born inside the U.S. Whatever happened to them after they climbed out of someone's vagina in the U.S. is irrelevant. If born here, they are a citizen.

What are you talking about? Parents would have to apply for citizenship in their country for their child. Then, kid either gets dual citizenship, citizenship till 18 and has to choose a country or when they apply for new citizenship give up the US. It really depends on the country.

That wasn't the question. The question was whether an American-born baby adopted by foreign parents will retain his or her American citizenship. The answer is unquestionably, unreservedly yes. He or she will. As long as he or she can produce a birth certificate proving that the baby was born in the U.S., an American passport will be issued to them in any U.S. embassy on earth. Nothing except a fact of adult renunciation will rid this baby of his or her U.S. citizenship. It doesn't matter what the parents do. It doesn't matter what their new country does or does not do. If a baby is born in the U.S., that baby is entitled to the U.S. passport, end of story.

This isn't exactly true. It depends on the state the parents are from and if the parents get citizenship in that country and the rules between the US and that country. The baby will be a US citizen but if they return home and get the child citizenship in another country some don't allow dual citizenship. They'd need to talk to an attorney.

When the child is legally adopted, the child gets a new birth certificate and new passport with the adoptive parents name. The parents have to apply for citizenship in their country and also may have to do a readoption there like you have to do here.

Anonymous wrote:What country are you from? The kids might be better off staying in USA.

Anonymous wrote:OP here, thanks everyone for the suggestions! It seems the best option right now is to contact an adoption lawyer and find out if we’re eligible for adoption here, the best route seems to be an agency.

Our native country has a residence requirement to adopt, so that wouldn’t work for us.

Anonymous wrote:Single mom here. Last year I adopted a beautiful healthy AA boy at birth. His birth mother chose me. Less than 14 months from first meeting at adoption agency till I brought my son home from the hospital. Expensive, but i had been saving for adoption since my first job out of college (18 years ago).

Anonymous wrote:Three years ago we adopted a beautiful baby boy. We used an agency in another state. We got very lucky and the whole process took us 16 months from home study to taking our baby boy home (to a hotel room) from the hospital. We had been trying for about 8 years to have a baby before that so I cant' say it was easy. However, we went through an agency, so it was expensive. All told I think the process cost us 45K.

Anonymous wrote:Does anyone know where to start? Does it make any difference the G4 visa? Is foster to adopt better or should we go with a private agency?

Looking for recommendations of lawyers/agencies. Would also like to hear your experience if you have a G4 visa and successfully adopted in the DMV area.

Thanks!

Anonymous wrote:I remember watching a program (60 minutes? )? where a couple from Germany adopted 2 healthy black children as babies from the US. Less stigma and prejudice in Germany than in the US.

For some reason, white people in the US do not want healthy adoptable black babies. Some even call themselves liberals.

Anonymous wrote:I remember watching a program (60 minutes? )? where a couple from Germany adopted 2 healthy black children as babies from the US. Less stigma and prejudice in Germany than in the US.

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We are a a white couple who adopted a black infant, your post is way out of line. We belong to a transracial support group too that means once a month ( usually) for the parents to chat and the kids to play together with supervision.

Op we adopted through adoptions together and had a very good experience, total wait time was less than a year once we finished all the paperwork which took about 5 months.

I will say, while I know nothing about your Visa I am not sure its fair to take an adopted child away from their bio family. Our DD is 7 and has a birth Mom here in MD and 2 bio half siblings. We have never met them but know that one day that may happen. If at any point DD wants to meet her birth Mom that can happen easily because we live in the same state.
I am from another country and have thought about moving there, but i would feel awful taking DD that far away from them.
I know people adopt from other countries and I am not knocking that at all. If you do adopt you should tell the agency you want a child from a family that has a closed adoption. Ours is open, although like I said there has been no contact so far.