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After Intercountry Adoption
Families formed through intercountry adoption may experience complications due to a child’s history, adoption requirements and cross-cultural parenting. Find resources in this section to help families access information about health assessments before and after arrival, the impact of institutionalization on children, transracial/transcultural adoption, intercountry siblings issues, children who have been abused or neglected, postadoption depression, readoption, documents for your child, postadoption reports, and reconnecting with cultural roots.
- Health assessment and postarrival evaluation
- Impact of institutionalization
- From orphanage to family life
- Transracial/transcultural adoption
- Siblings
- Parenting children who have experience abuse and/or neglect
- Readoption
- Obtaining documents &health coverage for an internationally adopted child
- Postplacement reports
- Reconnecting with cultural roots
Spotlight On
State Recognition of Intercountry Adoptions Finalized Abroad | |
Series Title: | State Statutes |
Author(s): | Child Welfare Information Gateway |
Availability: | View Download (PDF - 348KB) |
Year Published: | 2011 - 46 pages |
Discusses the requirements and restrictions set by the Federal Government and by States that apply to adoptions finalized in another country by U.S. citizens. In order for a child who has been adopted abroad to enter the United States, the adoptive parents must fulfill the requirements set by the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, the foreign country in which the child resides, and sometimes the adoptive parents' State of residence. This factsheet addresses recognition of intercountry adoption decrees, readoption in the United States, and application for a U.S. birth certificate. |