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China Adoption

Program Guidelines

Eligibility

• Marriage: You must be married for at least two years. If you have divorced and re-married, you must be married for five years and have no more than two marriages from either parent.
• Age: Adoptive parents must be between 30 and 50 to adopt healthy children and 30-55 for special needs children.
• Finances: Income must be over $10,000 per person in the household, including the child being adopted. Net worth must exceed $80,000.
• Education: Both parents must have graduated from high school.
• Children: You must have less than 5 children under the age of 18 in the household. The youngest child must be at least one year old.
• Marital Status: Singles will not be given priority and will, therefore, not be able to adopt.
• Criminal History: No history of domestic violence, sexual abuse, child abandonment or abuse (applicable even if there was no arrest). No history of using drugs including: opium, morphine, marijuana, cocaine, heroin, or ice, etc. No history of excessive drinking and must not have a history of drinking within last 10 years. This likely means no DUI’s within the last 10 years.
• Health: Both parents must be in good health physically and mentally. Both parents must have a Body Mass Index (BMI) of less than 40. Medical conditions that are not allowed include the following:
  • AIDS
  • Mental deformity
  • Infectious disease in infectious stage
  • Schizophrenia
  • Blindness or low eyesight in both eyes
  • Single eye blindness without artificial eye
  • Hearing loss of both ears
  • Loss of language ability
  • Malfunction or function disorder due to defect, incompleteness, paralysis and deformity of limbs. Wheelchair bound.
  • Severe facial deformity
  • Severe diseases that require permanent medical treatment or effect the normal life span (such as malignant tumors, lupus, liver disease, epilepsy, etc). Severe long term skin disease.
  • Fatal organ transplanting within 10 years
  • Medicine administration for severe mental disorder diseases such as depression, mania, or anxiety within last 2 years.
• If one’s religion forbids blood transfusions they are not qualified to adopt from China.
• One member of married couple must be a US citizen.

Available Children

• Children are in orphanages.
• Children are mostly girls from 7 months old.
• Two children can be adopted but not at the same time with the exception of twins.

Adoption Process

• Time from paperwork completion to travel is approximately 30-36 months.
• Adoption is finalized in China – unless only 1 spouse travels.
• Agency post-placement reports are required.
• Hague Accredited Country.

Travel Requirements

• Families travel in groups and are escorted by experience agency facilitator
• Only one trip to China for 10-12 days is required.
• Both members of a couple must travel.*
• While in China, adoptive families will be escorted by an agency representative through the entire process.
• Groups of families leave monthly for China.

* Some exceptions may apply 

Fees & Costs

• With Adoptions From The Heart there are no hidden costs. All possible expenses are listed on the fee schedule.
• Download a program outline with fees and costs .