so that's where babies come from...

IMMIGRANT VISAS ISSUED TO ORPHANS COMING TO THE U.S.
TOP COUNTRIES OF ORIGIN IN 2005

1: 7,906 - CHINA (MAINLAND)
2: 4,639 - RUSSIA
3: 3,783 - GUATEMALA
4: 1,630 - S. KOREA
5: 821 - UKRAINE
6: 755 - KAZAKHSTAN
7: 441 - ETHIOPIA
8: 323 - INDIA
9: 291 - COLOMBIA
10: 271 - PHILIPPINES
11: 231 - HAITI
12: 182 - LIBERIA
13: 141 - CHINA (TAIWAN BORN)
14: 98 - MEXICO
15: 73 - POLAND AND THAILAND (BOTH 73)
16: 66 - BRAZIL
17: 65 - NIGERIA
18: 63 - JAMAICA
19: 62 - NEPAL
20: 54 - MOLDOVA

That's ALOT of kids! I knew that lots of folks adopted from China and Russia, but somehow I find those numbers surprising. In case you are wondering, Vietnam just reopened to international adoption in April of 2006. In 2002, the last year that the borders were open, Vietnam was ranked 7, with 766 children coming to the states.