According to the 2010 Annual Adoption Report of the U.S. Department of State, in Fiscal Year 2010, the U.S. Government issued 11,059 immigrant visas to children adopted by U.S. citizen adopting parents, including 18 children from Armenia.
Russia is the third by the number of children adopted by U.S. citizens, being behind China (3,401 children) and Ethiopia (2,515 children).
U.S. citizens adopted children also in other post-Soviet states: Georgia (2 children), Kazakhstan (181 children), Kyrgyzstan (1 child), Latvia (39 children), Lithuania (15 children), Moldova (14 children), Ukraine (445 children), Uzbekistan (5 children) and Estonia (19 children).
