 |
 Peru Adoption - Adoption Procedures |
 |
| |
The Country | Adoption Process | Adoption Authority | The Children | Adoption Procedures | Parent Qualifications | Time Frame
Adoption Procedures
Peruvian law restricts inter-country adoption to children who have been deemed legally abandoned. A Peruvian court must make a legal finding of abandonment before the child is assigned to prospective parents. It prohibits adoptive parents from searching for and locating a child on their own.
U.S. law requires that the I-600 petition to classify an adopted child as an immediate relative be filed before the child's 16th birthday.
When the dossier of the prospective parents is completed and approved by the National Secretary of Adoptions Board, this institution assigns a child to those parents and forwards information regarding the assigned child to the parent’s adoption agency. After the NSA assigns the child, this referral must be accepted by the prospective parents within seven days, by FAX to Peru. The prospective adoptive parents then must travel to Peru for the adoption proceedings within the next thirty days. Adoptive parents should confirm with the NSA, through the Agency, that adoption proceedings are ready to move forward before making travel plans.
On the fourth day in Peru the couple takes the child with them; on the fifth day, a social worker assigned to the case will issue a report attesting to the compatibility and bonding of the child and the prospective parents; then they will be visited twice on the seventh day by the social worker to see the development of the child with the parents. Finally, with this last report will come the administrative resolution declaring the adoption.
Once the parents have the child’s adoption decree, revised birth certificate and Peruvian passport, they will file their I-600 petition with the Department of Homeland Security’s office of Citizenship and Immigration Services (DHS/USCIS) at the American Embassy in Lima. Once the visa is issued, the adoptive parents may return home to the U.S. with their child. Your adoption will then be final under international law!
|
|
 |
 |
 |
|
|
|
