Thank you for your interest in adoption from Haiti.  We are so very saddened by this recent tragedy that has hit Haiti and the desperate faces of all of the children seen in media coverage. 

We greatly appreciate Americans who want to respond by offering to open their homes and adopt these children in their hour of need.    As in any disaster of this magnitude, the children who may have been orphaned because of the earthquake would not become available for international adoption for at least 1-2 years to allow time to be reunited with their displaced family members.  This is a first priority!

International adoption is a process involving background checks, investigations into the orphan-status of a child, and much paperwork. The timeframe for an international adoption from Haiti, even when Haiti’s infrastructure was stable, involved a waiting time of at least 2 years or more.  With the urgent need of food, water, medical care, and safety on-going for the people in Haiti, that wait time will most likely become longer in the aftermath of this tragedy.  Even if children from Haiti who have no waiting families are brought to the United States, families with a current homestudy (approval to adopt) will be given the opportunity to adopt or foster these children.  Families wanting to foster or adopt a Haitian orphan should be prepared to incur expenses of approximately $4,000 or more in homestudy fees and/or other related pre-adoption expenses.

If you are still interested in pursuing an adoption from Haiti when adoptions resume, we would ask that you:

1. Review Haiti’s adoptive family requirements to see whether your family meets Haiti’s adoption criteria

2. Complete the online screening form (below) if you meet Haiti's guidelines for adoptive parents

The screening form will allow us to maintain a waiting list of interested families for Haiti should an opportunity to adopt children designated as orphans prior to the earthquake emerges.  You will be contacted later as we learn more about this possibility and the process for adopting a Haitian orphan.

PLEASE NOTE that the current adoption guidelines for Haiti are quite strict.  There may be the possibility in the light of this tragedy that some of Haiti's adoption guidelines may be relaxed, but we have no guarantee that this may happen or when it might happen in the future.  Please remember that there are many orphaned children around the world who are in desperate need of a permanent home and loving parents.  We encourage you to also visit our other country programs and their adoption guidelines as you prayerfully consider taking that first step to becoming the parent of an internationally adopted child.