Adoption Agencies and Information for Columbia

The government office responsible for adoptions in Colombia is the Colombian Family Welfare Institute (ICBF).  Prospective adoptive parents are advised to fully research adoption agencies or facilitators they plan to use for adoption services and ensure that it is an agency accredited by Bienestar Familiar (ICBF). Colombian law allows for adoptions by a married man and woman and common law spouses of more than three years. Single men and women are eligible to adopt children over the age of seven years only and on a case-by-case basis. In practice, newborns are assigned to younger couples, and older children are assigned to older couples.

BIENESTAR FAMILIAR (ICBF)
Grupo Nacional de Adopciones
Avenida 68 # 64-01
Bogotá, Colombia
Telephone: 011-57-1-437 7630 - Ext. 3158 – 3157

COLOMBIAN EMBASSY AND CONSULATES IN THE UNITED STATES:
Colombian Embassy
2118 Leroy Place NW
Washington, DC 20008
Telephone: (202) 387-5858, (202) 332-7476

For more information about adoption from this country and about adoption agencies that can assist you, please visit the websites below.  Prospective adoptive parents are advised to fully research any of the adoption agencies they plan to use for adoption services.

Columbia: Additional Adoption Agencies and Contact Information

A Chosen Child Adoption Services
Alliance for Children, Inc.
Baker Victory Services
The Barker Foundation
Bethany Christian Services
Children of the Nations International Adoption Agency, Inc.
Children's Home Society & Family Services
HOPE for Children, Inc.
Plan Loving Adoptions Now, Inc.
Spence-Chapin Services to Families and Children
Universal Aid for Children, Inc.
Wide Horizons for Children, Inc.
World Partners Adoption
Children's Home Society & Family Services
Children of the Nations International Adoption Agency, Inc.
Holt International Children's Services, Inc.
Villa Hope, Inc.
The U.S. Department of State: Colombia Adoption and Adoption Agencies
The U.S. Department of State: Authentications Office
Child Citizenship Act of 2000
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services
U.S. Foreign travel registration
U.S. Government Consular Information Sheets

*Footnote: The Joint Council for International Children’s Services (JCICS) is one of the oldest and largest membership associations of licensed non-profit international adoption agencies.  All of the above adoption agencies are listed as members of JCICS.