It's always been our (Claire and I) intention to adopt a baby girl from China (maybe 2) given the terrible conditions they are brought up in in there and such a high rejection rate with the one child policy etc. It would be our way of giving a little back to humanity and, we believe, is the reason why we had two boys instead of a boy and a girl. Anyway, we were just wondering what NZIS requirements might/would be in this situation. Would we need Citizenship or just PR? For how long?
I appreciate the issue is a very complex one and couldn't possibly be explained or fully understood with a couple of forum posts but was just wondering what people thought we might have to do in terms of which hoops needed to be jumped through.
I don't think we would do it for 6 or 7 years at least, but who knows what might change between now and then, it could be sooner. I think you might have to be 30 anyway before you can do it.
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