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What made me choose Chinese adoption was that there is a couple in my church named the Barton’s, and they adopted a boy and girl from China after they got married. Their oldest is a 9 year old boy and he has the most energy in a child I have ever seen, he is always really excited about helping others if it is at home helping his parents and sister or if it is helping people at church with cleaning up. Their youngest is a 7 year old girl, she is the sweetest little girl. She cares about everyone she comes in contact with. Always wanting people to smile and laugh, I think that is such a great quality in someone. It is so incredible to see and watch them grow up and see how strong they become in their faith.

The adoption process in China is pretty tough, you have to be very serious about making a child apart of your family because first you must choose an adoption agency that you want to go through to get said child, then after you finally made the decision of the adoption agency. You have to fill out an I-600A form that is just an application to be able to adopt children from another country. After filling out an I-600, you must add tax information, evidence of you and your spouse’s background check. Also copies of your health records signed by your doctor. After getting all of that paper work together and finished, you must get all of it notarized then get into contact with the Chinese Consulate in your own state who will sign and review all your paper work. After you get all of your paper work in, it could take up to a year to get your child. But as soon as your papers are cleared the adoption agency will send you a sealed envelope to bring with you when you go pick your child up. You must have the proper paper work to be able to take your child home like: a Chinese passport, and a US visa for your child. When that gets cleared you are able to finally take your child home with you.

 

I have learned a lot from researching this, it is unreal all the waiting one must do after getting all of the paperwork turned in. Even the paperwork process sounds crazy, but if you really want a child from China you will go to any lengths to get your child. Talking to the family at my church I didn’t fully understand the process they had to go through, but now I respect what they did even more. Parents must be very serious about the adoption process and I am pretty sure that all of the time they are since they are going to such lengths to adopt a child. It was extremely interesting learning and reading so much about this process. I can see why people do it.