Adoption Links

Our own information starts on our home page and our tree of internal links on our SiteMap, whereby our internal links are where to go for adoption tracing information in Thailand. Otherwise, the following covers external links to other entities below about adoption in general.

The Thailand government body for Thai child adoption comes under:

Child Adoption Center
Department of Social Development and Welfare (DSDW)
Ministry of Labour

The DSDW is a fairly autonomous branch of the Ministry of Labor, so you will rarely encounter anything idenified by the latter.

Child Adoption Centre
Department of Social Development and Welfare
Ratchavithi Road
Bangkok 10400 - Thailand

Tel.: +66-2-246-8651 (international) or 02-246-8651 (local)
Tel.: +66-2-247-9480 (international) or 02-247-9480

The DSDW website at www.DSDW.go.th is mostly in Thai whereby there are not English versions of many things. On the home page, there is an English version link, but clicking on it only refreshes the page in Thai.

There are many translations of various Thai documents, but Thai government regulations often require you use a translation certified by the Foreign Ministry, aka The Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Their website at www.mfa.go.th has an English language translation of the Guidelines for Intercountry Adoption of a Thai Child. Much more extensive is the document made available on the website of The Royal Thai Consulate-General in Chicago by the same title, Guidelines for Intercountry Adoption of a Thai Child.

(Note: It is a common misunderstanding that certain documents for submission to a Thai embassy or consulate need to have a certified translation by a Thai embassy or consulate. Actually, they only need to be proofread and then get a certified stamp, and you are often best off getting a quality and experienced Thai-English translation company to do your translation, if you want to expedite a matter. Some consulates and embassies are happy to do the whole translation at a fee, but if not, or if you wish to expedite a matter, then you may use a third party translator of quality. A quality translation should expedite a matter but a subpar translation may delay everything.)

Technically, adoption regulations come under the Child Adoption Act of B.E. 2522 (A. D. 1979), whereby the original Thai version is on the DSDW website.

If you are interested in adopting a child from Thailand, there is a good guide for adopting from Thailand on adoption.com .

An adoptive parent and journalist created a Thailand Adoption Homepage, with a particularly good Adoption Resources page.

Links to other websites of our company are on the About Us page.

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You can reach this website at any of the following addresses. They all come to this same site.