You will absolutely need to hire a lawyer. Finding one competent is in a certain area of law is always an unknown. A female lawyer would be more understanding to your needs to give extra effort. A Viet Nam government politician may be able to help. I would imagine legal adoption in Viet Nam is not to common.

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We have adopted 4 children...3 from Vietnam and 1 from India my concerns are several.
First, if you might one day return home, you need to know that your paperwork will be accepted there. Secondly, you need to have assurances that the child is registered and that you can be absolutely certain that an " adoption" is the real deal. Count on it...fraud in real estate, banking, anything with lawyers, is rampant.
I strongly suggest you contact an agency like Holt in the United states to see who they have a trust relationship with and who have a long history placing children out of Vietnam. I mention them because we got our first adopted child here...one, if not the first child they placed from here. At one point all foreign adoptions were stopped by Vietnam, but Holt restarted in 2014.
Have them or one of the Australian charities operating orphanages for a long time give you a referral to an attorney.
We learned of a newborn in Nha Trang ( THE grandparents knew of us and asked us to take the boy. I mentioned the call to a maid whose brother and his wife, we're unable to conceive. Within 24 hours that boy was theirs and we attended husband first birthday party.
Understand...this is a country of whimsy within application of the law. And if you are a foreigner, the rules can quickly change.
Check with your embassy for a referral or with a long term agency. Trust nobody else.
Good luck
Rick

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Rick..thank you for all that wise info...I have lived in Nha Trang now 1 year and I am dissapointed with all things goverment thats for sure. In fact I dont know how westerners can live here for any length of time ?.......if not for some of the lovely people here..mainly women I would be gone

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