Most often, the health and developmental issues are of a short duration when the children are placed in loving homes to meet these needs. Vietnam adoption laws are flexible offering a wide range of applicants the opportunity to adopt. This parent will attend the Giving and Receiving ceremony initiating the obtaining of needed documents and the child's passport. There is a minimum of twenty years age difference between child and parents. Childless couples must be open to a child of either sex.
Adoption is open for single parents.
Although the age of the child may be younger at the time of the referral, families wishing to adopt an infant must be open to accepting an infant child around 9 months of age. They must also be willing to wait at least six months for a child referral, although at the present time referrals are taking about 4 months after receipt of the dossier in Vietnam. Depending on the province where the child's paperwork is being processed, most families can expect travel within 1-5 months of referral. This does not guarantee that processing of the adoption case will be completed in 6 months or less, but is a standard probable time frame. Applicants will be considered on a case by case basis if over age 55, have more than three divorces between applicants, single applicants, and families with over five children already in the home.