1.         Requirements set forth by the Bulgarian law:

  • Only a legally efficient person, who has not been deprived of parental rights, shall be entitled to adopt a child.
  • Two persons may not adopt simultaneously one child, unless they are spouses.
  • The adoptive parent must be at least fifteen years older than the child adopted. Age difference shall not be required when:

- spouse adopts the child of his/her spouse, and

- the adoption is effected simultaneously or consecutively by two spouses and the age difference is present with one of them.

 
2.         Requirements set forth by the US law:

  • Married US citizens of any age, or an unmarried U.S. citizen who is at least 24 years old at the time he or she files the advance processing application (I-600A) and at least 25 years old at the time he or she files the orphan petition (I-600), may adopt.
  • The adoptive parent(s) must be holder(s) of favorable International Adoption Home Study prepared by licensed private or authorized official agency.
  • The adoptive parent(s) must be holder(s) of I-171H – Notice of Favorable Determination Concerning Aplication for Advance Processing of Orphan Petition issued by the respective BCIS office.

3.         Requirements set forth by the law of the country of the adoptive parent(s)’ habitual residence shall be met too.