International adoption consists of a free and self-aware choice made by a couple ready to become, in full gratuity, the parents of a child who, born from another couple in a foreign country, needs a family where he/she can grow and feel wanted and loved.

"There is a form of "procreation" which occurs through acceptance, concern and devotion. The resulting relationship is so intimate and enduring that it is in no way inferior to the one based on a biological connection.
When this is also juridically protected, as it is in adoption, in a family unified by the stable bond of marriage, it assures the child that peaceful atmosphere, and that paternal and maternal love which he needs for his full human development."

John Paul II

Faithful to the Social Teaching of the Catholic Church, AVSI considers adoption as a great deed of love, a service to life. The very existence of so many children worldwide living without a family suggests adoption as a concrete form of love. The free and self-conscious choice of the adoptive parents is the evidence of the fact that a family is built on love, which is not measured by genetic standards.

As a Licensed Authority, AVSI not only provides the family and the child with the necessary assistance in the formal and organizational steps of adoption, but is also concerned with sharing and supporting a human act so full of love and devotion.