Hello! We are Neha and Amit from the San Francisco Bay Area, California. We've been together for over 17 years and married for 15. A few years after our marriage, we moved to the United States to study at UC Berkeley. We loved the country, the people, the environment and decided to make a life and our home here in the Bay Area. As a couple we share the same core values of family first, respect and friendship.

Both of us love children and have always dreamt of a life with children in our family. We are very fortunate to have friends and extended family with lots of kids and love to spend time with them.

After several failed attempts to have a child naturally and through the medical IVF process, we are very hopeful to be blessed with a baby through adoption.

Amit and I met during my friend’s pre-wedding celebration. My friend also happened to be Amit’s sister! We started a long distance relationship being in 2 different states and maintained it for 3 years through numerous weekend meetings and trips. Finally, Amit proposed marriage during a road trip with a ring and his friends driving in front of our car with their trunk open and a big banner that said ‘Will you marry me?” After 6 months of preparations, we had a beautiful Indian wedding that lasted over 5 days up in the mountains of north India. There was singing, dancing, rituals and feasts that brought our families and friends together in the most memorable way.

Together, we love spending time with our family and friends, cook, travel, watch movies, go on hikes and do home improvement projects together.

I am currently working as a Vice President of Product Management with a leading bank in San Francisco. I have a lot of flexibility with my work schedule and will have the ability to be available for our future child while they are growing up as it’s so important to us and for them.

Childhood & Education: I really enjoyed my school life through dancing, debates and sports. I was the school prefect and the band major for 2 years in high school. I graduated from Mumbai University with a degree in business and I received my master’s degree from UC Berkeley in marketing and project management.

My father is a veteran from the Indian Navy and my mother is a kindergarten teacher. Due to my father’s profession my family moved every 2-3 years. Adapting to new cities, new schools, a new home and new friends not only made us flexible but also taught us how to have fun with change. Vacations were typically spent at our grandparent’s home climbing trees, picking fruits, trekking, skating and playing board games with my brother and cousins. I always admired my mother for being a working mom and balancing her home and relationships equally well.

Neha is the most caring, nurturing, and giving person I know. Her confidence, creativity and resiliency is admirable.

She always brings people together and is known in our circle for being a great host and party planner.

I know she will make an incredible mother just from watching how she cares for and supports our nephew and niece as they are growing up.

I am currently working as the Senior Director of Accounting for a large Software company in San Francisco. I work from home and am lucky to have the flexibility to be a present parent and care for our future child anytime.

Childhood & Education: I graduated from Delhi University and received my Master’s in finance and business from UC Berkeley. I became a Certified Public Accountant by the time I was 21 years old. I grew up in India with my parents, younger sister, and lots of cousins in my neighborhood. My father was a businessman, while my mother is a doctor of alternate medicine. As a child I was a little introverted but I loved to play cricket and ping pong after school with my cousins. For vacations, my parents would take my sister and I on wonderful trips and visit new places. I lost my father early in life which made me even closer to my mother.

Amit is the most supportive partner anyone could ever hope for. He is always liked and admired not only by elders but also all the kids in our family and community. He treats everyone with respect, compassion and remains balanced in all circumstances. We have always discussed and looked forward to growing our family and raising children together.

We live in a very family-friendly neighborhood with beautiful parks, walking trails, a large library, a bustling downtown and excellent schools.

Our family and childhood friends that live a few minutes away from our home and are excited to help us with everything we could need as new parents, including childcare.

Our neighbors come from diverse backgrounds and are very warm and welcoming.

Our Dog, Dakoo: We share our home with our sweetheart golden doodle, "Dakoo".

He loves children, is very gentle and friendly with them.

Dakoo has grown up with our little nephew, Om, and loves to race with him and play with a ball.

We feel lucky that we live a few minutes away from Amit’s sister, brother-in-law, 4-year-old nephew and 13-year-old niece, as well as Neha’s brother and sister-in-law.

Our parents visit often from India and have stayed for extended periods of time to also offer support with our nephew and niece growing up. They all are so excited to welcome another child into our family and are very supportive of our adoption journey.

The last few years have brought us even closer. As stressful as life could have been in 2020, it brought us a lot of joy with the birth of our nephew who we helped raise while we lived together with Amit’s sister's family.

Most of our friendships go a long way back, some for more than 15 years. We have a lot of friends that are more like family that live within 20 minutes from our home. We get together on weekends and holidays where we eat, travel, picnic, and celebrate special occasions and festivals together.

We have been very actively involved in raising our nephew and niece and our family is very excited to welcome another child into our family with full support for our adoption journey.

We believe "it takes a village to raise a child" and look forward to sharing our love, friendship and the joys of life with our future child.

While we can only imagine the difficulty in choosing what is best for your child, should you choose us as adoptive parents we promise to support you in every part of your adoption journey and look forward to learning about you and what you hope for your child’s future.