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December 6th, 2009 
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How to adopt a nephew from the Philippines?
Con-con asked:
Hi! My mom wants to adopt my cousin who is in the Philippines, My mom and I are both permanent resident(green card holders) here in the US. My question is how can my mom adopt my cousin who is in the Philippines? His parents doesn’t about him anymore and my mom feels bad for doing nothing so she asked me to do a research. Its kind of sad but anyway I wish someone can give me the step-by-step or at least a website in which I could find information about this kind of stuffs. Thanks in advance.
Email Madonna or Brad and Angelina they seem to know everything you need to know about adopting foreigners.
All Phillipine adoptions must go through ICAB –
This is a link to their FAQ
While the information is geared toward non-relative adoptions, they do mention in a few places that relative adoptions will be treated slightly differently. Spend some time at the site and use their contact information to contact someone there who can help you.
You’re also going to have to check with US Immigration about bringing your cousin to the US as the adopted child of permanent residents. I looked into it very quickly for you and the easiest summary of the rules that I can find is here: