There is plenty of information available online and offline to guide you through every step in adopting a child from another country. The Internet is a vast storehouse of information on international adoption, with sites on adoption agencies, adoption information, and country-specific adoption information from the United States' point of interest. The American government also has lots of online information on the laws and regulations in the country regarding international adoption.

Adoption.com is a large online library covering anything that is even remotely connected with adoption, including parenting, upbringing of foster children and adopting. Specific resources on international adoption cover the A-Z of the entire process, from getting medical advice to the types of adoption, legalities, monetary concerns and country specific information.

Adoption.org covers this process from the adopted child's point of view, and has information for kids trying to seek out their original parents. This website is an adoption resource in the real sense of the word, as it carries advertisements of prospective parents and articles on related subjects. International adoption is given many full web pages of solid information on laws, procedures, books, camps and other logistics of the adoption process. The website also provides country-specific guides to international adoption.

The United States government travel website provides extensive resources on international adoption and the formalities associated with it. The URL http://travel.state.gov/family/adoption/ covers areas related to international adoption, including country-specific information, visa statistics of orphans and other related facts. The website also outlines the involvement and limitations of the government in the process of international adoption. It also provides an online booklet that is a complete guide to anybody wishing to adopt a child from a foreign country.

For more resources on international adoption, you can also go to http://international.adoption.com/ and www.mapsadopt.org. Some good books on international adoption can also be found at www.tapestrybooks.com