In the Vietnamese Press…
Nov 10th, 2007 by Christina
Adopting a Child in Vietnam from Thanh Nien News…
“In 2006, around 300 children were adopted,” said Trinh Thi Bich from the Agency for Civil Status, Judicial Records and Nationality, “and this year so far we have processed 200 cases.” …
Vietnam has an agreement on child adoption with eleven countries including France, Denmark, Italy, Ireland, Sweden, Belgium, the US, Canada, Germany and Switzerland. …
“The process will take about six months after all the required documents are submitted,” said Thang. …
The fees for an adoption case were VND3 million (US$187).
Another article in that same website from earlier in the year talks of 2000 adoptions per year with France and the US having 700 and 500. It also mentioned that there were already 400 adoptions in the first quarter.
http://www.thanhniennews.com/society/?catid=3&newsid=27064
I have read the full article, I thought that the articles timing was quite interesting as it was published in the English Language edition of a Government controlled press.
I forgot to add that we now know the official fee the agencies pay to the DIA, $187 per dossier, Vietnamese papers do not lie.
Brendan