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Please be aware that U.S. citizens cannot do what you have done. The child will not be eligible for a visa to enter the U.S. unless the parents have gone through the specific, applicable Hague or non-Hague process that the country requires for adoption, and unless the child meets USCIS requirements for an adoption visa. Yes, with some countries, the child can come home on a decree of guardianship for adoption here, if that is permitted in those countries, but the parents and child must follow the normal I-600 or I-800 processes. If they do not, they may have to live overseas with the child for two years and then apply for a regular visa, or they may have to return the child to the orphanage. Unfortunately, too many U.S. citizens have committed themselves to adoption of a child overseas after seeing him/her in an orphanage/foster home, or after talking to a birthmother, only to discover that they cannot immigrate the child unless they live overseas with him/her for two years. They have taken on legal and moral responsibility for the child, yet if they cannot spend two years overseas, they cannot bring him/her home.