LNI also handles the translations. Experienced staff both here and abroad will assist you every step of the way. We follow good social work practices at the outset by helping adoptive parents recognize their parenting strengths in order to make a decision regarding the age, gender, race, health and number of orphans to be adopted at the same time. Our social workers steer adoptive parents away from risky placements. Our bilingual staff abroad works closely with the child placement authorities in the foreign country to locate a child or children as described in your home study.
Children range in age from newborn to eight years old.
Biological brothers and sisters must be placed together in the same adoptive family. In some countries, the foreign child-placing entity matches the parents to the orphans. Others, such as Bulgaria, Guatemala, Romania, Russia and Vietnam send us the referrals and social workers here make the matches. If a program slows down or closes, you can start the process over by applying to another foreign country without an additional fee. You receive a photograph or video of the child along with the child's name, birth date, and place of birth.