Information on Foreign Adoptions
Adoption offices in countries that have centralized adoptions by foreigners, with mailing addresses and telephone numbers (country and city codes in parentheses):
ROMANIA: Comitetul Roman pentru Adoptii, Str. Iancu de Hunedoara, nr. 5, sector 1, Bucharest, Romania. Telephone: (40-0) 614-34-00, extension 1013 or 1099; also, 617-61-60.
RUSSIA: Education Ministry, Irina Nikolayevna Volodina, Main Department for the Social Protection of Childhood, 6 Chistoprudny Boulevard, Moscow 101856 Russia. Telephone: (70-95) 207-0290.
CHINA: Chinese Adoption Center, 147 Beiheyan Dajie, Beijing 100721, China. Telephone: (86-1) 513-5338.
COLOMBIA: Instituto Colombiano de Bienestar Familiar, Mercedes Restrepo-Jefe de Adopciones, Avenida 68 No. 64-01, Bogota, Colombia. Telephone: (57-1) 571-231-4558.
CHILE: Servicio Nacional de Manores, Casilla 330, Correo 22, Santiago, Chile. Telephone: (56-2) 223-2647, (56-2) 223-5910.
PHILIPPINES: Department of Social Welfare and Development, Constitution Hill, Quezon City, Philippines. Telephone: (63-2) 922-1811 through 1815.
POLAND: Towarzystwo Przyjaciol Dzieci, ul. Jasna 24-26, Warszawa, Polska. Telephone: (48-22) 277-651.
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