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.

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.

Post Traumatic Stress Disorder is VERY Real in adopted children. Change in caretakers, environment, food, people, and simply the change in stimulation level cause anxiety and panic in post institutionalized children. Dr. Ronald Federici, a neuropsychologist who specializes in adopted children from Eastern European countries and has several adopted children himself comments here.

Dr. Federici, who has visited hundreds of orphanages, explains some of the health issues a child may encounter in Adopted, The Movie.

Learning Russian can be quite difficult, especially if you don’t know that the modern Russian alphabet is variant of the alphabet.
The layout of the early language is based on the ninth century Glagolitic alphabet that is influence by Greek and Hebrew and has adapted over the years of spoken language.

Number of Adoptions in 2006: 580
US Department of State 
ELIGIBILITY REQUIREMENTS FOR ADOPTIVE PARENTS:  Officially, Kazakhstan allows both single and married people to adopt, and there are no age requirements other than that an unmarried prospective adoptive parent must be at least 16 years older than the child s/he intends to adopt.  In practice, however, some unmarried prospective adoptive parents have found it difficult to adopt, as have prospective parents over age 60.
Prospective adoptive parents who have any type of arrest record, regardless of how minor or how long ago an offense occurred, should consult with an adoption professional before deciding …read more