Be sure to pick somebody you feel very comfortable with. Get at least 5 each. You can always use them later. Make sure they are notarized, if you have to go back for that, it s a long time and much more costly. 3 personal letters of recommendation and one from your pastor, pictures of all family members, including close-ups, the family together and your house, fingerprint charts and statement of mental competency.
Every country has different requirements.
What you need to know is that for each of those documents we had to have the original, and notarized copies. Bolivia requires the notarized copies from your hometown to then be authenticated in your state capital. Then they have to be stamped by the State Department and then stamped by the Bolivian Embassy. With a Bolivian adoption you must appear before a judge. He asked us to promise to give her an education and to include her in our will.