Citizenship Application Adoption
September 5th, 2010 . by adminChildren are gifts to parents. Children give joy in a home. They serve as the string bonding a family together. But, not every couple is given the chance to have a child or children. In some cases, having children already does not stop other parents to have more through adoption. Reasons vary. There are famous people like Angelina Jolie who adopt for the love of helping children from depressed areas all over the world. Adoption is for other people one way of charity; reaching out to the less fortunate. Adoption is a long process. There are legal steps to follow and qualifications to be met by applying adoptive parents.
What is Inter-country Adoption?
Inter-country adoption is the process by which you:
1. To adopt a child from a country other than your own through permanent legal means; and
2. To bring that child to your home country to live with you (as adoptive parents) permanently.
Through inter-country adoption, the legal transfer of parental rights from birth parent(s) ( biological), to another parent(s) takes place. Over the last decade alone U.S. families have adopted on average: approximately 20,000 children from foreign countries each year.
Adoption: is defined as the judicial or administrative act that establishes a permanent legal parent-child relationship between a minor and an adult or adults who is/are not the minor’s legal parent(s) (at birth) and terminates the legal parent-child relationship between the adopted child and any former parent(s).
In general, an adopted child has the same rights and privileges as a legitimate child at birth of the parents’ inheritance/heir matters.
Simple,” “conditional,” or “limited” adoptions, such as those conducted under Islamic Family Law in some countries, are more specifically described as guardianship and are not considered adoptions for U.S. immigration purposes.
The Hague Convention
The Hague Convention on Protection of Children and Co-operation in Respect of Inter-country adoption was established on April 1, 2008 (Hague Adoption Convention) in United States. Its major function is to establish standards and to safeguard/protect inter-country adoptions. The protections solely apply to those who are a part of the Hague Adoption Convention. This is called Convention Adoption. If you wish to adopt a child from any country included in the Convention, it is important to know the rules and any process involved early on to diminish the possibility of any problems that may occur while already in the process of adoption. You would not want to be disappointed later on if and when you discover while in the middle of the process that you missed something; that the process is then put on hold or at worst, denied.