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The
Hague Convention on Protection of Children and Co-operation in Respect of
Intercountry Adoption (Hague Adoption
Convention) governs adoptions between the United States and
approximately 75 other
nations. · The
Hague Adoption Convention entered into force for the · The
Department of State is the U.S. Central Authority for the Hague Convention, and
oversees compliance with both the Convention and the Intercountry
Adoption Act of 2000
(IAA). In this role, the Department of State also serves as
· The
Hague Adoption Convention protects children and their families against the risks
of unregulated adoptions
abroad,
and ensures that intercountry adoptions are in the best interests of the
children involved. The Convention also serves to prevent the abduction, sale of,
or traffic in children. The
protections extended under the Hague Adoption Convention to children and
families are not necessarily available when adopting from countries outside the
scope of the Convention. The
adoption of a foreign-born child does not automatically guarantee the child's
eligibility to immigrate to the Contact
with Birth Parents Some
additional resources:
The
Hague Adoption Convention generally forbids prospective adoptive parents from
having any contact with the child’s birth parents, and/or the child’s legal
guardians before the country of birth determines the child is adoptable
according to Convention principles and refers the child for adoption to a
family.
