Obviously adoption laws differ from place to place, but fwiw, when our friends M&J decided to adopt from China, it took approximately 2 years to go through the whole process - from first applying to the Provincial agency dealing with adoption, to passing their (fairly rigourous) requirements concerning "suitability," to being approved; then they waited until they received a call telling them to be prepared to go to China to pick up their child in, like, a week or something.
Weirdly, they have to go through that whole entire process again now that they're attempting to adopt a second child from the same country, even though the "authorities" have all their information already....
All of which is to say, don't expect to have the little tyke in your arms tomorrow!
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Date: 2009-02-25 01:02 am (UTC)Obviously adoption laws differ from place to place, but fwiw, when our friends M&J decided to adopt from China, it took approximately 2 years to go through the whole process - from first applying to the Provincial agency dealing with adoption, to passing their (fairly rigourous) requirements concerning "suitability," to being approved; then they waited until they received a call telling them to be prepared to go to China to pick up their child in, like, a week or something.
Weirdly, they have to go through that whole entire process again now that they're attempting to adopt a second child from the same country, even though the "authorities" have all their information already....
All of which is to say, don't expect to have the little tyke in your arms tomorrow!