• Download ICF Application

• Download ICF Home Study Agreement

• Download ICF International Adoption Services Agreement

• Home Study Guidelines

• ICF Hague Policies and Procedures

• Family & HS Interagency Letter of Understanding

• Call us or send your application with the $300 agency application fee to:

International Child Foundation
302 East Suffolk Drive
Tucson, AZ 85704-7131

If you have any questions, please contact us.
We have Phoenix and Tucson numbers
and a Toll Free number for out-of-state families!

Our Application Form has our refund policy and other useful information. We encourage you to review our International Adoption Services Agreement.

• Contact us about doing a home study. We are licensed to conduct home studies in Arizona and have colleagues in other states, as well. If we are not licensed in your state we will refer you to a home study social worker. If International Child Foundation is preparing your home study and providing adoption services, the application fee is paid only once, with your home study.

• Start gathering required documents such as your birth certificates, marriage licenses, divorce decrees (if you have been divorced); ask for 2 certified copies when you place an order.

• Make a reading list. We have some recommendations! For a complete list of adoption related books, go to www.tapestry.com.

The time and paperwork involved in adoption may feel challenging... but sharing your life with a child who needs you will be worth every minute.

Adoption Process 1-2-3
Submit applications to

1. International Child Foundation

2. US CIS
Apply to US CIS for "advance processing of an orphan petition." Call 1-800-870-3676 to order your "International Adoption Packet, including the I-600A" from US CIS or go the US CIS Website http://uscis.gov and click on "Immigration Forms, Fees, and Fingerprints" to download the I-600A.

Regarding Question 16: Write on the middle line, above "The American Consulate or Embassy at" the following, depending upon your country of adoption: Belmopan, BELIZE; Guangzhou, CHINA; Guatemala City, GUATEMALA; Almaty, KAZAKHSTAN; Ho Chi Min City, VIETNAM; Moscow, RUSSIA; Kiev, UKRAINE.

Email us for our I-600A Answer Sheet!

3. Home Study
Start your home study with ICF or another licensed child placement agency.

Gather The Required Documents

1. Birth Certificates (must be certified copies)

2. Marriage License (and Divorce Decree or Death Certificate, if previously married)

3. Passport - If you don't have a valid Passport apply as soon as possible after starting the adoption paper work. If your name changed since your Passport was originally issued it must be updated. See
http://travel.state.gov/passport/get_first_apply.html

For further assistance with Passports visit
http://www.vitalrec.com

Child Citizenship Act

The US Bureau of Citizenship and Immigrations Services (US CIS) streamlined the production of Certificates for Citizenship for certain children adopted abroad. Newly entering IR-3 children are automatically US citizens when they arrive. These children will receive Certificates of Citizenship within 45 days of their arrival, instead of receiving a Permanent Resident Card and then filing the N-600, as was the former procedure.

Children entering the US on IR-4 visas, however, with guardians, become US citizens only upon adoption in the US. For more information, go to www.uscis.gov/graphics/services.