1. Complete an application form.
2. Submit the completed application form along with all other required documents.
3. It will take about 60 days for an application for child adoption to be settled.

Important: Foreigners adopting Vietnamese children must make written commitments to report once every six months to the provincial Peoples Committee and the International Child Adoption Agency of the situation of the adopted children in the first three years, then notify once a year in the subsequent years till the children reach full 18 years of age.

Documents to be submitted to the International Child Adoption Agency or Vietnam-based child adoption agencies. The dossier for adoption of a Vietnamese child shall comprise the following papers:

1. The application form for adoption of a Vietnamese child;
2. The notarized or authenticated copy of the applicants passport or substitute papers;
3. The valid permit granted by a competent body of the country where the applicant permanently resides, allowing them to adopt children;
4. Health certification issued by a competent organization of the country where the applicant permanently resides;
5. Certification of the applicants income, proving that they can afford child adoption;
6. The applicants judicial record, issued by a competent agency of the country where they permanently reside.

Get in touch with an International Child Adoption Agency or Vietnam-based child adoption agencies to know more about the adoption process.

Socialist Republic of Vietnam Government Portal - Government Ministries

For the Adoptive Parents

Marriage and Family Law has stipulated requirements that adopters must meet such as: *having full civil act capacity;

• being twenty years or more older than their adopted children;
• having good ethic qualities;
• having actual conditions to ensure the care for, support and education of their adopted children.

Would be adoptive parents must not be people who have certain parental rights toward minor children restricted or who have been sentenced for one of the crimes of deliberately infringing upon the life, health, dignity and honor of another person; ill-treating or persecuting their grandparents, parents, spouses, children, grandchildren and/or fosterers; inciting, forcing juvenile people to commit offenses or harboring juvenile offenders; trafficking in, fraudulently exchanging or abducting children; or the crimes of sexual abuse against children; committing acts of enticing and/or forcing their own children to act against law or social morality, but have not yet enjoyed criminal record remission.

Foreign adopters who are permanently residing in the countries not yet joining any bilateral or multilateral international agreement on child adoption cooperation with Vietnam may also be allowed to adopt Vietnamese children if they are one of the following cases:

• Having worked or studied in Vietnam for 6 months or more;
• Their spouses or parents are Vietnamese citizens or of Vietnamese origin;
• Being next-of-kin or relatives of the to-be-adopted children or their current adopted children are blood siblings of the to-be-adopted ones;

The Government of Vietnam may also allow foreigners adoption of disabled children, child victims of toxic chemicals, or children affected by HIV/AIDS or other dangerous diseases, who are living in lawfully-founded nurturing establishments.

Inquire at an International Child Adoption Agency or Vietnam-based child adoption agencies to know more about adoption fees.

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It will take about 60 days for an application for child adoption to be settled.

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Foreignerss (including overseas Vietnamese) child adoption is regulated in Decree 69/2006/N?-CP, on the implementation of the Marriage and Family Law.

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