Re: All Things Adoption
is he adopting from US or Pakistan?
US can be very tough, other muslim countries have many orphans but the adoption laws are mired in obsolete and misguided thinking, making it tough for the children to be adopted.
Pakistan, he can work with edhi, for new borns there is a wait list, ..because many adoptions are kept secret, older kids may be a bit easier timeline wise. process wise it helps to have a good support structure in pakistan because as far as I know, after you get the custody of the child it can take upto 6 months to get all paperwork done to take the child out of the country.
I knew other options, but they too have been closed once again. Defenders of the faith have closed international adoption because they feared kids were being adopted by people who were converting jus to adopt, and rather than come up with some better due diligence, they have decided that closing all adoption is the better option. sadly this is the same country where girls cant be found for adoption, because they are taken in by families to hand over to the maid to raise a maid for the next generation.