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Have completed adoption procedures with child from overseas.  Currently I'm living overseas.  What is my next step for the child with Immigration?  What is the process for getting the child to USA?

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Is this child related to you or your wife? Child of your aunt, uncle, cousin, wife's sister etc?

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The adoption is completed in another country.  I'm her legal parent.  Have court documents from another country, the adoption is finial.  What is the next step, we need to do, bring her to USA? 

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This may be helpful.

 

Good Luck!

 

https://www.uscis.gov/adoption/bringing-your-internationally-adopted-child-to-the-united-states

 

https://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/how-bring-your-adopted-child-the-us.html

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I-130 Question.

 

I am a US citizen and my wife is a US Green Card Holder.  Certainly we adopted her neice from Ethiopia and need advice on completing the I-130 application.  The child is 13 years old and has been living with us here overseas since August 2023.

We were wondering with the adoption certify by the Ethiopian courts, would the child be considered immediate family?  

 

As we do are research we notice the processing time can take some time and would like to bring the child to US by the end of this year.

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On 2/13/2024 at 4:39 PM, Timona said:

Is this child related to you or your wife? Child of your aunt, uncle, cousin, wife's sister etc?

The child is my wife niece, her sister child.  Her sister is no longer with us, she has pass away.  An the father has gave consent through the courts for us to adopt her. 

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The father is still alive.  We just complete the court process in Ethiopia and the father gave his consent.  The adoption was award to us last month.

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Related threads have been merged and consolidated in one forum.  Please confine further questions to this thread.

06-04-2007 = TSC stamps postal return-receipt for I-129f.

06-11-2007 = NOA1 date (unknown to me).

07-20-2007 = Phoned Immigration Officer; got WAC#; where's NOA1?

09-25-2007 = Touch (first-ever).

09-28-2007 = NOA1, 23 days after their 45-day promise to send it (grrrr).

10-20 & 11-14-2007 = Phoned ImmOffs; "still pending."

12-11-2007 = 180 days; file is "between workstations, may be early Jan."; touches 12/11 & 12/12.

12-18-2007 = Call; file is with Division 9 ofcr. (bckgrnd check); e-prompt to shake it; touch.

12-19-2007 = NOA2 by e-mail & web, dated 12-18-07 (187 days; 201 per VJ); in mail 12/24/07.

01-09-2008 = File from USCIS to NVC, 1-4-08; NVC creates file, 1/15/08; to consulate 1/16/08.

01-23-2008 = Consulate gets file; outdated Packet 4 mailed to fiancee 1/27/08; rec'd 3/3/08.

04-29-2008 = Fiancee's 4-min. consular interview, 8:30 a.m.; much evidence brought but not allowed to be presented (consul: "More proof! Second interview! Bring your fiance!").

05-05-2008 = Infuriating $12 call to non-English-speaking consulate appointment-setter.

05-06-2008 = Better $12 call to English-speaker; "joint" interview date 6/30/08 (my selection).

06-30-2008 = Stokes Interrogations w/Ecuadorian (not USC); "wait 2 weeks; we'll mail her."

07-2008 = Daily calls to DOS: "currently processing"; 8/05 = Phoned consulate, got Section Chief; wrote him.

08-07-08 = E-mail from consulate, promising to issue visa "as soon as we get her passport" (on 8/12, per DHL).

08-27-08 = Phoned consulate (they "couldn't find" our file); visa DHL'd 8/28; in hand 9/1; through POE on 10/9 with NO hassles(!).

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12 hours ago, Thomasfreeman814 said:

As we do are research we notice the processing time can take some time and would like to bring the child to US by the end of this year.

 

No chance of that. 

 

 If you and the adoption meet the criteria set out in the link given to you above, then you can start the process but it's not going to happen within 9 months - by the end of next year is more realistic.

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53 minutes ago, appleblossom said:

 

No chance of that. 

 

 If you and the adoption meet the criteria set out in the link given to you above, then you can start the process but it's not going to happen within 9 months - by the end of next year is more realistic.

Additionally, you need to have had certain amount of time with the child in your custody - check the links provided earlier - 2 years is what I've seen mentioned. 

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Okay thank.  We have been living overseas since 2019, since 2021, the child has joined us doing her school breaks.  We also have been provide care for the child since 2019.

Just wondering if this would be enough to passed the requirement?

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