how do you adopt an undocumented child?
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Well this is what u need to do. Go to the court house have the dad sign over custody then u will have temporary custody intill the next date when u gey full custody.
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Get ahold of a lawyer who does adoptions. He will write up a petition for adoption and run it in the local newspaper in the town where you last knew that your ex lived (if you don't know where he is at now...then just have them run it in your local newspaper). It has to run for 4 weeks (regardless as to whether it is a daily or weekly paper) and if he doesn't respond to it to contest it, then the lawyer will get a date set on the courts docket and you will go to court and the judge will grant the adoption by default. New birth certificates will be made up and they will replace the original ones, although they will staple it over the original at the state capital Vital Statistics. You will receive the new Birth certificates with you and new hubby's names as birth parents and the kids will have his last name as if they were born that way.\nCongratulations and Good Luck!!!!
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It sounds as if your actual citizenship, adoption and work status are questionable.  You will need to contact the court or attorney who handled your adoption. They may be able to help you trace your documents in order to get a Guatemalan Birth Certificate.  Many children in the US when adopted are issued new birth certificates listing the adoptive parents as the new birth parents. \n\nIs it possible that your adoptive parents told you that you were legal, when that was not really true? The combination of "lost documents" and the social security card with INS restrictions make it all seem suspicious.\n\nIf you ever once had citizenship then you would not need to "get" citizenship again, though you might need to replace your documents. I would start with a visit to the online US embassy, they have information and contacts regarding gaining citizenship. These contacts may be able to help you work through your paperwork step by step to get your desired result.\n\nYou can visit the local Social Security office and get a new Social Security card issued, though it is likely to still have the INS authorization restriction. \n\nYou may benefit from the services of an immigration attorney.
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You are looking to adopt or know someone that is wanting to put a child up for adoption? I am guessing it is the second answer. \nCheck with your hospital or a lawyer or you can contact local churches there are so so so many people that can not have children and would be great parents. \nI would have loved to be able to have a baby and we tried for 8 years. We were blessed finally with a baby in 1995 and we also adopted 4 other children (not babies but I love them just as much as if they had been babies). I wish you all the best.
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Contact the US State Department and talk with someone about the kidnapping of your baby.  They will work with the other countries' ambassador to work on the location of your child.
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By adopting the child you are accepting legal and financial responsibility for the child. Should the two of you ever seperate or divorce, she can petition the court for child support from you. And you can petition the court for custody or visitation.\n\nIf you do not adopt the child you may (or may not) still be required to pay child support (depends on the laws of your state). And you may (or may not) be able to get custody or visitation.
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There are lots of adoption support groups online that can help you.\n\nwww.zabasearch.com\n\nwww.ussearch.com (the first part is free)..and this can tell you where she lives..(city and state)\n\nwhite pages to find listed people\nwww.theultimates.com\n\nGreat Articles\nhttp://www.adoption-help.org\n\nSupport Groups:\n\nhttp://groups.msn.com/theforgottenpeople...\n\nYahoo! Groups\nhttp://groups.yahoo.com\n\nSearchingRegistry\nfamilytiesadoptionsearch\nadoptee-support\nsoaringangels\nusaadoptiondatabase\ntouchedbyadoption\n\n\nGoogle Groups\nalt.birthright\nalt.support.adoption\nalt.support.adoption\n\nAlso here are some books to consider:\n\nSearch : A Handbook for Adoptees and Birthparents 3rd Edition\nby Jayne Askin\n\nWhose Child? : An Adoptee's Healing Journey from Relinquishment through Reunion ... and Beyond\nby Kasey Hamner\n\n\nBirthright : The Guide to Search and Reunion for Adoptees, Birthparents, and Adoptive...\nby Jean A. S. Strauss\n\n(you can buy this books used on shopping.Yahoo.com and on Amazon.com)\n\nhttp://shopping.yahoo.com/b:bo...
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Worked for me\n\nhttp://www.adoptme.org/\n\nsee if direct link helps\n\nhttp://www.adoptme.org/AdoptaPet.aspx
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First of all, get married before you consider this. \n\nSecond ... there are 2 ways to do this. The biological father has to waive his rights to paternity, or agree to the adoption. If he won't waive his rights, and won't agree, then you can petition to have his rights waived, but it is very difficult, very expensive, and doesn't often get granted unless the biological father poses a very real and dangerous threat.\n\nEither way, the process is not cheap by any means. First get married, then save up ... a lot.
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I have some knowledge of how the INS works, but I've never petitioned for an adopted child, so my advice is kind of non-specific.  What I had to do, I did all with books and the internet and without lawyers, for the most part.\n\nMany sites on the internet offer packets of forms and instructions for applying for different visas and adjustment of status.  The reasons these are worth the money is that they provide clearer instructions than the INS does, and a clear listing of what forms and documents you need to have a complete package.  And some sites may actually have a package designed for your exact situation.\n\nThere's an immigration section on about.com, and a forum for questions like these.  That helped me a lot.\n\nDon't know your exact situation, but I'm thinking that your wife's status either (a) needs to be already adjusted to PR status-green card, or (b) the applications for both wife and son s/b done at the same time.  No way is the son going to get the GC before the mom.\n\nForms should be typewritten and very legible. Make copies and put them in a well-organized binder, so that you have them all at your fingertips when you bring the binder with you to any interview.\n\nThe same goes for supporting documents.  The more supporting documents, the better.  The goal here is to bury them with as many suppporting documents as possible, because this kind of tangible evidence of your marriage's legitimacy cannot be ignored. With a marriage-based GC, much of what you need is things showing bills in both names, property held in both names, joint bank accounts, etc.  Other than birth certificates, I'm not sure what you need for adoptive son.  Probably much the same, because the legitimacy of his right to be with you, the citizen, still hinges on the legitimacy of your marriage to his mom.\n\nFor each fee that you submit to the INS, pay with a money order FROM THE BANK NOT THE POST OFFICE.  The reason is, if you ever have to prove that the INS cashed it, you need a copy from the issuing agency.  Banks have to compete and they can find the proof quickly and send it to you.  The Post Office will take forever.  Btw, ask for this evidence/proof about one month after you submit your package to INS, so that it's already in your binder at interview time.\n\nAll correspondence should be sent Certified Mail, Return Receipt Requested, even if its to a PO Box. Private companies like Fedex won't deliver to a PO Box, but the Post ofice will, and they'll get a signature too.\n\nBe prepared to have your interview on very short notice.  All the timetables on the internet told us we would have to wait a year between submission date and interview date.  We had our interview 6 months after submission date, which NOT coincidentally was 2 weeks shy of our 2nd anniversary, which would have made my wife's GC permanent from the interview date if they had waited.\n\nWhen it came time to apply to make my wife's GC permanent, we submitted a ton of supporting documents, all the forms we needed, plus copies of everything that had been in the original petition for her temporary GC.  It was thick like a phone book.  Timetables for this said they were backlogged and would take two years to process our application.  But this "bury them with documentation" strategy worked in our case.  We got the approval letter for the permanent GC 13 months after we submitted the package, and never had a 2nd interview.\n\nUse lawyers sparingly.  What I did was save up my questions until I had about an hour's worth, then go to a lawyer for a $50 consult.  Lawyers can't help you at the interview, they can't even talk during the interview, but they don't want you to know this.  Mostly, they just have underlings type up the forms for you and charge you a fat fee.  If you are not good at navigating forms and bureaucracy, this could be worth it for you.\n\nGood luck.
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You need to contact either social service offices or adoption agencies--each has different criteria.
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just give them your information.  they'll help you get your illegal families across the border.
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Ask your adopted parents. And/or the adoption agency.
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Start at the agency you were adopted through.\n\nFrom there, you could probably use anywho or google, or one of those search firms if they are really hard to track down.\n\nUse caution if you don't know what she's like, though.  She could be great, or she could be trouble.
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go to the county in which the child was born not the county you live in and jus tell them you need a birth cert. fill out the form and have money and I.D.
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First of all I would know my facts,\nLike trying to become legalized.\nOr I wouldn't cross over the borders just to have my child become legal, and me still be Illegal, their is no way I could take that chance.\n\nIf the child is a legal citizens then the state will own him/her. He/She would probably be place into a foster home.
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yes you can.  get an immigration lawyer that specializes in adoption because doing it yourself can lead to all sorts of problems.  finding one shouldn't be that big a problem in nyc.