David and Laura Birdy from San Antonio love their newly adopted children very much, but San Antonio Express News reports that their process of adoption wasn't all that easy. The couple had planned to adopt Haitian children last May, but the tragic earthquake that happened in Haiti last January drew unexpected dilemmas.
David, who works as a San Antonio real estate agent, has spent the past month in a Haitian orphanage. Laura, who works as a nurse, had to deal with a battle involving Haitian immigration so that the children were allowed to come to the U.S. Yet the couple's long haul is coming to a close. Earlier this month, 44 Haitian children that were about to be adopted by U.S parents were put on a charter flight that flew from Port-au-Prince to Miami. Most of the children came from the Haiti Children's Rescue Mission, a Christian orphanage in a mountainous suburb of Port-au-Prince.
The Birdys were able to pick up their newly adopted children named Lonise and Mikerlange in Miami. The family then flew to San Antonio. Besides the Birdy children, four other Haitian children on the plane were adopted by two other San Antonio families.
FindLaw states that foreign adoptions can be very complicated and often require work from Texas family law attorneys. With international adoptions, adoptive parents must fulfill the requirements set by the United States Bureau of Citizenship and Immigration Services both in the Department of Homeland Security and in the foreign country where the child resides.
Related Resources:
- The Legal Hurdles With Haiti Adoption (Houston Family Law blog)
- Applying to Bring a Foreign-Born Orphan to the U.S. (FindLaw)
- Contact Texas Family Law Attorneys (FindLaw)
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