From the United States Immigration Support:
The Certificate of US Citizenship (form N-560 or N-561) is a document issued by the United States government as proof of U.S. citizenship. Individuals who are eligible to apply for the United States Certificate of Citizenship include those who obtained U.S. citizenship while residing in the United States or individuals who were born outside the United States to U.S. citizens. Specific details of eligibility include:
■ Your parents are U.S. citizens, but you were born abroad.
■ At least one of your parents became naturalized when you were under 18 years of age and met …read more

A child who has not been completely adopted in the international country will receive an IR-4 visa. This child must be re-adopted in the U.S. in the state wherein the family lives.
Unlike a child who has an IR-3 visa, a child who enters the country on an IR-4 visa will not receive their American citizenship until their adoption is complete in the United States.

An IR-3 visa is given for a child who is adopted internationally.
To qualify for an IR-3, both parents must have seen the child prior to the adoption proceedings.

Christmas, traditionally called Lidet in Ethiopia, falls on January 7. It is celebrated by a serious church servcie that goes well on into the night with people traveling from church to church.
It is said that traditionally, young men also played a game that is similar to hockey, called genna. To this day they say that this is how Christmas came to be known as Genna.

Hope Leonard was adopted from Ethiopia in 2003 and every Christmas her parents have a very difficult time finding her a Christmas gift…all she wants is peace, food for the orphanages, or a sister.
Read her story.

I found this recipe on Find me a Recipe. They list recipes by nationality.
Yield:
12 Breads
Ingredients:
Flour 1 3/4 c
Self-rising flour 1/2 c
Whole wheat Flour 1/4 c
Dry yeast 1 pk
Water, warm 2 1/2 c
Baking soda 1/2 ts
Salt 1/2 ts

Preparation:
Combine the flours and yeast in a ceramic or glass bowl. Add the warm
water and mix into a fairly thin, smooth batter. Let the mixture sit
for three full days at room temperature. Stir the mixture once a
day. It will bubble and rise.
When you are ready to make the injera, add the baking soda and salt
and let …read more

Celebrate the opening ceremonies of the Olympics in true Chinese style! Make a Multi-Colored Streamer on a stick/dowel so that you can wave it when your favorite team comes up!
Will it be Guatemala, Russia, China, Vietnam, Korea, India, or the US?

A child from a Russian orphanage will most likely come with either a very detailed medical history with a variety of medical terms Western society has never heard of or they will have only the history from when they entered the orphanage, as there was little or no medical care or history prior to their orphanage life.
Russian Medial Reports can often be difficult to interpret because of the language translation but typically the medical care is sound, or at least they try to be with the money they are allotted.

From domestic to international adoptions, from first moms to adoptees, from same sex parents to transracial families…the best of the best adoption blogs out there on the internet.
General
Anti-Racist Parent
A Birth Project

Adoptive Parents
Domestic
Production, not reproduction
Plain Jane Mom Letters to a Birthmother
Gotcha Baby
Baggage and Bug
Fostering Pride
Overwhelmed with Joy
This Woman’s Work
The Other Mother
Mayhem and Magic
Peter’s Cross Station

International
My Two Boys
Salsa in China
Jesus was Not a Republican
Two Different Loves
It Only Takes One Step
Pundit Mom
A New Flower Blooms
Artificially Sweetened
Alison and Jim’s Adoption Journey
Come Undone
Now What?
Just Enjoy Him
Third Mom …read more

From A Birth Project:
According to a BBC report, a group of ‘charity workers’ located in Chad were arrested on the tarmark of the airport with an airplane full of about 103 children. The group denies they planned to sell the children for adoption, instead claiming they were sending them to ‘host families’ at a nice price of 2,400 euros (US$3,450) each. The group also claimed the children were from Darfur, Sudan and they were rescuing them from their ‘war torn lives’. It turns out many of the children were from Chad and not without families.
Apparently Guatemala is not the only …read more