PeterYuri

Any idea on how long that takes?

Shes in vietnam with me.

I want to apologize if this is the wrong section to pose this question. My wife is a citizen of vietnam. She has received her green card and we went to vietnam to visit her family. However during the visit i lost her passport. What steps do i take? Do i go through vietnam or us embassy? Thanks in advance for any advice or point in the right direction.

I want to sincerely thank you all for the information you all given me. Thank you all for your time and responses. This helps me a lot.

I was wondering if anyone could provide me any sort of guidance or websites, english preferably to help with the following situation.

My wife is a green card holder from Vietnam, she has a niece in Vietnam whoses parents are divorce and neither can really support the child. So i'm wondering if there's a process or website with information on,

1. Adopting the child (she's currently 6 right now) in Vietnam

2. How to bring said child to America

Some concerns of mine-

Length of time for everything.

Paperwork that would require us to physically be in Vietnam for any part of the process.

I appreciate any help tips or starts to help me figure out how to do this.

We were advised to set aside a couple of small bills (USD $5, $10, or $20) and put everything else away (preferrably hidden in your money belt). If they do ask for coffee money, show them that is all you have ($10 or $20) and tell them that is all you have for food, drinks, and taxi. My friend's wife packed USD $200 in her purse when she left Saigon. At the customs booth, she was asked to hand over whatever money she had. She gave them all $200 and they gave her back $20 for food. Thievery at its best!

So i'm just so curious/worry, who advised you about this? I was able to be in Vietnam for her interview (which was a good thing since her translator was asking the questions wrong and I pointed that out and end up getting all the questions instead of my fiancee) and no one told me about this. I just occasionally check the forums for kicks and giggles.

My Fiancee recently got approved on the 15 of May and is set to leave near the end of June to come to America. Unfortunately since I have work I cannot escort her. Is this really a common thing that I should send her money for this issue?