Question

I am a foreigner residing outside Vietnam, seeking for adopting a Vietnamse Child. Attorneys in Danang, Vietnam advise on dossier of adopting person for application of Vietnamese children adoption in Vietnam ?

Answer

Attorneys in Vietnam ?

Dossier for application of Vietnamese children adoption of an overseas Vietnamese, a foreigner permanently residing abroad must comprise papers, documents provided in Clause 1 Article 31 of Law on Adoption in Vietnam No 52/2010/QH12 dated June 17, 2010.

When applying dossiers at the Department of Child Adoption in Vietnam, the adopting person in case of specific children (nominal request) as provided in Clause 2 Article 28 of Law on Adoption in Vietnam No 52/2010/QH12 dated June 17, 2010 must apply 01 set of dossier of adopted children and depend on each case, must have the following correlative documents:

Copy of marriage certificate of stepfather or stepmother with natural mother or father of adopted children.

Papers, documents proving that adopting persons are natural aunt, uncle of the adopted children.

Copy of Vietnam competence agency’s decision allows such person adopting Vietnamese children and papers, documents proving that such adopted children with the children introduced to be adoptees are biological siblings.

Papers, documents proving that adopted child is belong one of the cases provided in clause 1 Article 3 of the Decree No 19/2011/ND-CP dated March 21, 2011.

Confirming document of the Commune-level People Committees or Public Securities of the adopting person; Vietnam residence and the other papers, documents proving that the adopting persons are the foreigners working, educating uninterruptedly in Vietnam for  at least 01 year period, counted to the date of application of dossiers at the Department of Child Adoption./.

Legal basis: 

Article 13 Decree No 19/2011/ND-CP dated March 21, 2011.

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