Materials needed for international adoption in the United States
Applicants are required to submit US citizenship and immigration service forms, family surveys, application fees and other relevant documents. The document fee for the application is $720. In addition, there is a fingerprint collection fee of $85, and property owners over the age of 18 in the family need to participate in fingerprint collection.
Adoption criteria: Disabled persons and other protected persons (such as age, sex, race, skin color, country of origin or religion) need to go through three legal steps: American federal law, adopted country law and state law.
American adoption law
Federal bill, divided into national law, adoption subsidy law, general order, family and health permit law; International law is divided into Hague Convention and international adoption law; Supplementary laws, including the Child Welfare Act of India and intercontinental agreements; In addition, 50 states also have corresponding laws and regulations.
American adoption mechanism
The American government adopts a guardianship mechanism for adults who adopt children born out of wedlock. In fiscal year 2000, there were 150703 foster children in the United States, most of whom were relatives of adoptive parents or biological parents. 1997 after the adoption and safe family act was promulgated, the number of adoptions of children in custody in the United States almost doubled.
American adoption policy does not require the adopter to have financial strength, but it must ensure that the adopted child's psychology is not suppressed and distorted.
Relevant laws and regulations of the United States
The adopter must be at least 25 years old. Before going through the adoption formalities, the adopter must personally see the adopted child, even if it is a foreign child. The adopter must see it in person, and Irish passport holders also abide by this rule. Just seeing videos or photos of adopted children is not the same as "seeing them with your own eyes". However, the adopter has never seen the adopted child before or during the adoption procedure (for example, not yet).
Born), the applicant still has a chance to adopt successfully, but only if the applicant submits a statement agreeing that the child can be adopted twice.
Adoption investigation
Before adoption, the applicant family needs to undergo a background check. The family survey is completed by an officially licensed "family survey agency". In addition, before adoption, the adopter must also submit a recommendation letter for adoption of the child.
The purpose of family investigation is also to ensure that the adopted children have a good growth environment and will not be abused because of adoption. So family survey is of great significance.
There are many contents in the family survey: the investigator personally talked with the former adoptive parents and asked about the family situation, such as the number of family members of the former adoptive parents; Investigators should also assess the physical, mental and emotional abilities of pre-adoption parents and their family members (if one parent suffers from a serious disease, such as cancer, it is not eligible for adoption); The financial situation of the pre-adoptive parents will also be carefully recorded, such as income, debt, consumption and expenses for supporting other family members (the US government stipulates that the income level of the pre-adoptive parents is at least 25% higher than the poverty line, or they have solid assets). Investigators should also describe the housing conditions of adoptive parents in detail. In addition, the ability of pre-adoption parents to provide appropriate care for disabled children was recorded. Finally, adoptive parents also need to accept a comprehensive assessment of their ability to take care of adopted children.
In addition to face-to-face interviews, investigators also learned about former adoptive parents through other channels, such as investigating their child abuse records and their family members, whether they abused drugs, whether they had records of sexual abuse or domestic violence (certified by the FBI or the police), and whether they committed crimes (people who committed serious crimes were not eligible to adopt children). These inspection and investigation items are aimed at each member of the adoptive parents' family. The results of the survey are prominently written in the report. If the former adoptive parents have refused to adopt before, or the family investigation report that is not conducive to adoption, the former adoptive parents must give a convincing explanation. If the pre-adoptive parents do not truthfully reflect the situation, the adoption application will be rejected.