How To Adopt A Child From Colombia
Child adoption is a straight forward process but it has several steps. Since the process has quite a few steps, therefore, a lot of patience is required from the adopting parents while the adoption process is ongoing. From visiting orphanages or adoption agencies, preparing your papers, filling application for adoption, paying legal fees and to finally taking custody of your Colombian child, takes considerable amount of time. To answer this query, we have created a detailed guide on the topic of child adoption in Colombia.
This is where you can greatly benefit from the services provided by a legal services company or an adoption agency. It is best to hire a legal services agency that has expertise is this domain. Additionally, the legal services agency with a bilingual or multilingual staff can ensure that all steps of the process are properly explained to you and you understand your rights and duties as well. You may need to hire a local attorney but that differs on case by case basis, but usually not required. It is best that you research adoption agencies in advance before arriving to Colombia. This will save you a lot of time during the adoption process.
In Colombia, there are mainly two types of adoption, a child of a single parent or an orphan. Before adopting a child in Colombia, the adopting parents must qualify based on the criteria below. The criteria below is presented as an infographic which breaks down the entire adoption process.
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James Lindzey founded the website ColombiaVisas.com, which is constantly updated with new information explaining visa resolutions, procedures, and laws in Colombia to expats. James has worked as a private investigator and paralegal in the United States through the 90s until he moved to Colombia in 2005. James arrived in Colombia in 2005 and started doing visas for expats, but currently works as Director of Legal Services for Visas by James, and Colombia Legal & Associates SAS since June of 2023.
Colombia Legal & Associates acquired the brand name Visas by James as it became a more familiar and easy way for foreigners to remember the business, than the previous Visas y Tramites Internacionales.
While MedellinLawyer.com focuses more on legal issues for expats, ColombiaVisas.com focuses more on visas, and holds the trademark Visas by James. ColombiaVisas.com is the oldest website and provider of visa information for expats in Colombia. We are proud to be the first and always on the cutting edge of providing interactive website content to our visitors.
In addition to our visa services our agency offers a full range of legal and accounting services to our clients. We are able to assist better in document collection services in the United States because of James previous legal experience in the United States.
