Adoption News

If you are an adoptive parent traveling to Guatemala during the week of July 2- July 7 please be aware that the Central Adoption Authority in the United States has issued a notice regarding lodging.

On May 22, 2007 the U.S. Central Authority Department of State announced that the Congress of Guatemala has passed legislation that confirms the country’s membership into the Hague Convention on Intercountry Adoption. Guatemala is now committed to creating standards that will protect children during the adoption process.

Although the number is not an exact, there are an estimated 26,000 orphan children in India that are available for adoption. The Indian Government has been impressed with the care and education provided to children that have been adopted out of India through international adoption. However, the government has noticed that the number of children […]

There is currently a delay in adopting from Russia. The length of time this delay will occur is predicted to be two months, however this is not certain. It is, however, not the first delay to occur in the recent history of Russia’s international adoption program….

On March 15, 2007 The First Lady of Guatemala, Wendy de Berger, met with Assistant Secretary Maura Harty to discuss adoption reform in Guatemala. Both parties were in agreement that Guatemala is in need of adoption reform which would include implementing the Hague Convention on International Adoption.
Guatemala is in need of additional resources in order […]

This article appeared in USA TODAY on Monday, March 18, 1996.
Adoption advocates across the country, working to find permanent homes for thousands of hard-to-place U.S. and foreign children, are trying a new marketing tool. They’re going on the Internet. This trend started in late 1994, when a Waco, Texas, homemaker became the first […]

Technology may have just made communicating with U.S. Citizen and Immigration Services a bit easier. Each USCIS office now has an email address for prospective parents to use when needing to ask questions regarding international adoption. The USCIS website in and of itself is informative and provides viewers with necessary information for knowing how […]

There has been concern among parents in the process of adopting that the Hague Convention will have an effect on their adoption plans. If parents file the 1-600A or 1-600 form prior to the implementation of the Hague Convention they will be able to proceed with the adoption. Congress took this concern into account and […]