The Supreme Court has clarified the rules of international adoption of Kazakh children
The Supreme Court has clarified the rules of international adoption of Kazakh children
05.10.2007
Last week, a judge in Astana the Supervisory Board of the Supreme Court gave Galia AKKUOVA official comments on international adoptions Kazakh orphans.
In RK permit foreign citizens to adopt a child gives the court. According to Ms. Akkuovoy, currently the country's 16,884 children living in orphanages, even in 2084 to three years of living in orphanages. 80% of them - the so-called "social orphans", that is, children with living parents. There are 6 children's villages of family type, 29 family houses, 23 houses and 3 youth non-"children's village". These institutions brought up only 16.6% of children. The judge said that "in such a situation, the optimal shape of the device is the adoption of children": "Since the adoption develop not only close, relationship, but there is their legal recognition."
In 1999, the existing Law "On Marriage and the Family," which allowed for the first time in Kazakhstan, international adoption, and put on the courts the duty to take decisions to permit it. According to the Sun, for 8 years, more than 20,000 children are adopted citizens of the Republic of Kazakhstan, about 6000 - foreigners.
Ms. Akkuova explained the procedure of adoption by foreigners Kazakh orphans: Prospective parents should contact the diplomatic mission or consular post of the Republic of Kazakhstan, preparing documents that are "characterized by its financial situation, the environment, health, and so on." "Then there is a request to our Ministry of Foreign Affairs to issue a special entry visa for adoption. Citizen is registered as emerging on adoption in Kazakhstan, on arrival, he also gets to the appropriate account. Here, through the Ministry of Education in the information he finds information about the child, goes on its location. By law, he must choose a child for 2 weeks to contact him. And only then, when the contact is inappropriate, when the child gets used to it and there is a conclusion of the guardianship, the alien applies to the court for an adoption, "- informed the judge.
Adopted child is issued a certificate of adoption and a national passport of the Republic of Kazakhstan, which is the mark of the Interior for permission to leave for permanent residence abroad and Foreign stamp of registration. Then the information is sent to the consular or diplomatic representation in the country of arrival of the child in order to further the representatives of Kazakhstan could control to adulthood living conditions and upbringing of the child. Moreover, if the new parents change their place of residence, they must notify the Kazakh dipuchrezhdeniya it.
According to Ms. Akkuovoy, "not so much, but there were times when after a court foreign adoptive parents came to the orphanage, and he did not go to them, and they went to court to refuse to adoption."
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