Transfer of EACI India and China adoption cases to IAN

Posted on Feb 6, 2017 9:39am PST

As many of you know, EACI adoption agency lost it's Hague status in December of 2016. As a result they had to move all their programs to other agencies. IAN was identified to take on India and China Cases. We have spent the last month or more working to make this transfer as smooth a possible and welcoming these families to IAN. It has been a difficult time for all those families involved, but we are happy that the transfer is completed and we can focus on serving our new families and their prospective adoption children!

The State Department issued more information for those transfer families on Friday, and we are posting that here so that our new families can stay informed! Please be sure to read this carefully, and follow up with our office as needed. Thanks to all our families' patience, current and new, as we have worked on this. We are so thankful to be serving our growing network of families and children.

Click here for the State Department Update Concerning EACI transfer cases

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February 2, 2017

Adoption Alert: Uganda’s Residency and Fostering Requirement

As reported in our June 2016 Adoption Notice, the Children Act Amendments of 2016 require non-Ugandan prospective adoptive parents to spend one year living in Uganda fostering the child(ren) they intend to adopt. It has come to the attention of the Department of State that in an effort to fulfill that requirement, some adoption service providers (ASPs) may be arranging for Ugandan residents to foster children on behalf of U.S. prospective adoptive parents. We urge prospective adoptive parents to carefully consider the following information before considering using “proxy fostering.”

Officials from Uganda’s Ministry of Gender, Labour, and Social Development (MGLSD), which has authority over Uganda’s adoption process, have told the State Department they are still in the process of drafting regulations to define how the Children Act amendments will be implemented. Therefore, there is limited information available about Uganda’s adoption requirements, and no assurance that the Ugandan government will accept proxy fostering as a way to fulfill the one-year residence and fostering requirement for adoption. Moreover, the MGLSD has verbally informed Embassy Kampala that its current intention is for the regulations to require prospective adoptive parents to physically reside in Uganda and foster their adoptive children there for a period of 12 months.

http://www.lgbt-ep.eu/press-releases/european-parliament-demands-action-on-eu-wide-recognition-of-adoptions/

European Parliament demands action on EU-wide recognition of adoptions

Today, the European Parliament adopted a report (533 +, 41 -) demanding the automatic recognition of domestic adoption orders across EU Member States. The report stipulates that the recognition should happen without discrimination, including on the basis of the parents’ sexual orientation.

<20160606PHT30695_width_6001-254x254.jpg>The report highlights that the lack of provisions for the recognition currently cause significant problems for families, which move from one Member State to another. The other Member State may not recognise parents’ parental rights, which exposes them and the children to all sorts of legal risks.

The report highlights that refusing to recognize an adoption order, as countries can do through a ‘public order’ argument, may never lead de facto to discrimination prohibited by Article 21 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union. This article prohibits discrimination, including based on sexual orientation.

MEPs call for automatic cross-border recognition of adoptions

Press Releases PLENARY SESSION 02-02-2017 - 12:01

To protect adopted children’s best interests, MEPs have urged the EU Commission to require all EU countries to recognise each other’s adoption certificates automatically. Their resolution, voted on Thursday, proposes a European Certificate of Adoption to speed up the automatic recognition process.

Couple Claims Adoption Agency Embroiled Them in Child-Trafficking Scheme

February 1, 2017ELLEN ROBINSON

(CN) – A Greenville, South Carolina, couple claim they were duped by an adoption agency into believing the Ugandan children they planned to adopt had been relinquished by their mother, only to find themselves enmeshed in a human-trafficking scheme.

In a complaint filed in the Greenville County Court of Common Pleas on Jan. 27, Tyler and Allie Sloan say they contacted defendants European Adoption Consultants and Debra Parris, the director of its African adoption program, in December 2014, and after a preliminary meeting, were accepted to participate in the defendant’s program.

As recounted in the complaint, 14 months passed, and then, in February 2016, Parris told them two children were available for them to adopt: a 7-year-old girl and 2-year-old boy.

RPD asks about adoption centers closed

Published: 01/02/2017 Updated: 02/01/2017, 11:02

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Why closed centers authorized to carry out adoption procedures abroad, and whether as a result of this decision has not been tampered interests and rights of children? - asks the Ombudsman for Children Minister of Family, Labor and Social Policy El?biet? Rafalsk?.

EDITORIAL BOARD RECOMMENDS

"Improve intercountry adoption system, don't stop it"

31 Jan 2017

File: Adoption

Today, Secretary of State for Security and Justice Dijkhoff presented his policy response to the report 'The future of the chain for intercountry adoption' by consultancy firm Andersson Elffers Felix (AEF), and the advice 'Reflection on Intercountry Adoption' of the Council for Criminal Justice and Youth Protection (RSJ). The RSJ advised in November last year to stop intercountry adoption. Defense for Children - ECPAT believes that the State Secretary should implement a number of strong changes in the adoption chain, but sees no improvement in the proposed adjustments on a number of fundamental points.

Defense for Children - ECPAT welcomed the RSJ report and recognizes the identified bottlenecks in adoption. In particular the influence of financial incentives on adoption and the problems with applying the subsidiarity principle. Strengthening child protection systems in the countries of origin of adopted children is most consistent with the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child.

Kenyan family reveals Danish couple in adoption of girl were duped

SUNDAY JANUARY 29 2017

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An adopted child with his new family. Cabinet issued an indefinite moratorium outlawing all inter-country adoptions of Kenyan children. FILE PHOTO

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Bedford family stranded in Poland after adoption process goes wrong

by Valencia Jones & Ashley AnnSunday, January 29th 2017

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Polen: alleen christenen mogen nog adopteren

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EKKE OVERBEEK, WARSCHAU en POLEN– 1:38, 28 januari 2017

monopolie De katholieke kerk gaat vanaf nu als enige in Polen adopties regelen. Alle andere organisaties moeten stoppen.

Vanaf 1 februari heeft de rooms-katholieke kerk in Polen het alleenrecht om buitenlandse adopties te regelen. Voortaan komen alleen praktiserende christenen in aanmerking voor het ouderschap.