Dutch to slowly reinstate international adoption after hiatus

The Netherlands, which paused international adoptions in 2021 due to structural abuses, promises to soon reinstate the possibility of adopting from the Philippines, Hungary, Lesotho, Taiwan, Thailand, and South Africa.

Cooperation between the Netherlands and the countries from which adoption will be resumed is intensifying, the government confirmed.

A similar type of cooperation relationship with Bulgaria and Portugal is expected in the first half of 2023 following an investigation by the Central Authority for International Children’s Affairs.

At the same time, the adoption cooperation relationship with the US, China, Slovakia, the Czech Republic, Peru, Colombia, Burkina Faso, and Haiti is being phased out.

“Now that it is clear from which countries intercountry adoption will remain possible and which not, information and information meetings will follow and family surveys will be resumed. This will bring an end to an uncertain time for those involved,” said Legal Protection Minister Franc Weerwind

The Netherlands had paused adoptions from abroad in February 2021 after the government discovered “structural abuses” within the system, NL Times reported.

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