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International Adoption

Canadian law allows you to adopt a child from another country if you are a Canadian citizen or permanent resident. To bring your adoptive child to Canada, you must sponsor the child for immigration. You can start sponsoring a child as soon as you decide to adopt or you can wait until after you have found a child and have started the adoption process. There are two processes that you must go through when you adopt a child from another country: the adoption process and the immigration sponsorship process. You need to know about both.