Family Forum / Parenting / Adoption / August 2003

Tomorrow I'm going in for a job interview with Nortel Networks here in
Richardson, Texas, for a job that would take place in Beijing, China.
If I get this job and therefore relocate to Beijing, does anyone know
how my wife and I would go about adopting an infant there?

    Currently we are the parents of three children, all adopted.  We
got them through LDS Family Services, and I've discovered that LDSFS
has no presence in China, so we would need to find a new agency.  Does
anyone know of any agencies in China that they could recommend?  It
would be nice if we could get some idea of the waiting time between
applying with an agency and getting an infant, any requirements of
adoption by the Chinese government, how much it would cost to adopt an
infant, how long we'd have to live in Beijing before we could apply,
things like that.

    Any information anyone can give me on this would be greatly ap-
preciated.

                               ---Kevin Simonson

"Maybe it started as a dream, but doesn't everything?"
from _James and the Giant Peach_