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Once your adoption is complete there are a few more steps to take before your child can head home. Specifically, you need to apply for three documents before your child can travel to the United States:.
If you have finalized the adoption in Kazakhstan, you will first need to apply for a new birth certificate for your child. Your name will be added to the new birth certificate. If you have been granted legal custody for the purposes of emigration and adoption of the child in the United States, the birth certificate you obtain will, in most cases, not yet include your name.
The new name s for the child and the names of the adoptive parents must be specified during the court hearing and included in the court documents. After a court decision granting an adoption becomes effective, a representative of the facilitating U.
These documents take five working days to process. Your child is not yet a U. A representative of the facilitating U. It takes seven working days to receive a passport. Adopted children must also obtain consular registration from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Nur-Sultan and exit visas from the local office of the Migration Police prior to departure from Kazakhstan. After you obtain the new birth certificate and passport for your child you need to apply for a U.
Consulate General in Almaty. After the adoption is granted, make an appointment to visit the U. S Consulate General in Almaty for a final review of the case, and if applicable, the issuance of a U. This immigrant visa allows your child to travel home with you and be admitted to the United States as your child. Please contact the U. Read more about the Medical Examination. You should receive a letter from the National Visa Center NVC confirming receipt of the provisionally approved Form I petition and assignment of a case number and an invoice ID number.
You should fill out these forms in your child's name. Print and bring the DS confirmation page to the visa interview. Upon receipt of the case at post, the Consular Section generally notifies the petitioner. Visa issuance after the final interview generally takes 24 hours. It is not usually possible to provide the visa to adoptive parents on the same day as the immigrant visa interview.
You should verify current processing times with the U. Consulate General in Almaty before making final travel arrangements. Additional information on immigrant visa processing can be found on our website. Read more about the Child Citizenship Act of Once your child acquires U. Only the U. Department of State has the authority to grant, issue, or verify U. Getting or renewing a passport is easy.
In addition to a U. Where required, visas are affixed to your passport and allow you to enter a foreign nation. Before you travel , it is always a good practice to investigate the local conditions, laws, political landscape, and culture of the country.
The Department of State provides Country-Specific Information for every country in the world about various issues, including health conditions, crime, currency or entry requirements, and any areas of instability. When traveling abroad during the adoption process, we encourage you to enroll with the Department of State through our Smart Traveler Enrollment Program STEP to receive important information from the Embassy about safety conditions in your destination country.
Enrollment makes it possible for the U. Embassy or Consulate in Kazakhstan, to contact you in an emergency, whether natural disaster, civil unrest, or family emergency. Whether there is a family emergency in the United States or a crisis in Kazakhstan, enrollment assists the U. Embassy or Consulate in reaching you. We strongly urge you to comply with Kazakhstani post-adoption requirements in a timely manner. The obligation to provide post adoption reports rests with the adoptive parents.
Your adoption agency will include the matter of post-adoption reporting in your service contract, specifying that the adoptive parents are required to provide all necessary information for the reports and disclosing who will prepare the reports and the fees that will be charged. Many adoptive parents find it important to find support after the adoption.
There are many public and private nonprofit post-adoption services available for children and their families. There are also numerous adoptive family support groups and adoptee organizations active in the United States that provide a network of options for adoptees who seek out other adoptees from the same country of origin. You may wish to take advantage of all the resources available to your family, whether it is another adoptive family, a support group, an advocacy organization, or your religious or community services.
Department of Health and Human Services maintains a website, the Child Welfare Information Gateway , which can be a useful resource to get you started on your support group search. If you have concerns about your intercountry adoption process, we ask that you share this information with the U. The Department of State takes all allegations of fraud or misconduct seriously. The Complaint Registry is an internet based registry for filing complaints about the compliance of U.
If you think your provider's conduct may not have been in compliance with accreditation standards, first submit your complaint in writing directly to your provider. If the complaint is not resolved through the provider's complaint process, you may file the complaint through the Complaint Registry. Consulate General Almaty 97 Zholdasbekov St. Adoptions uscis. Jan 31, Kazakhstan Update. Antigua and Barbuda. Bosnia and Herzegovina BiH. Burkina Faso. Cabo Verde. Central African Republic.
In , the first year for which data is available from the U. Department of State, 77 international adoptions took place from Kazakhstan to the United States. Children available for international adoption from Kazakhstan were between the ages of months and healthy.
The guidelines to adopt from the country were fairly straightforward, and many Americans were drawn to the idea of adopting a younger child. International adoptions from Kazakhstan continued to rise, and in —at the height of intercountry adoption— children were placed in the United States. By way of contrast, in , 7, children were adopted to the U.
Interestingly, of that group of five countries, today only China and South Korea remain fully open to intercountry adoption. From , 6, international adoptions occurred from Kazakhstan to the United States. Then in , international adoptions from Kazakhstan to the United States ground to a halt.
There were two major factors that caused the suspension of intercountry adoptions in Kazakhstan: the Hague Convention and the perceived ill-treatment of Kazakhstan adoptees in the United States. The purpose of the Hague Convention is to ensure that every international adoption is completed with the utmost ethical standards. The Convention calls for establishing a central adoption authority and puts several safeguards in place to avoid the trafficking of children across country borders.
One of the ways this is done is to make sure every child is indeed an orphan. This may involve a great deal of paperwork, publishing of abandonment notices, and research on the part of the sending country. Additionally, every effort must have been made to place the child domestically in-country first. Only after these two requirements have been met will the child be eligible for intercountry adoption.
In , the U. But it was not until that the full reach of the Hague Convention could be implemented in international adoptions to and from the United States. For the first six years, the U. This was made possible by the Intercountry Adoption Act of It then took another eight years for the United States to form a central adoption authority, which is a branch of the U.
Department of States, set up accreditation for adoption service providers, and design and execute systems and processes through which to complete intercountry adoptions to Hague Convention standards.
In May , Kazakhstan signed the Hague Convention. Adoptive parents must be at least 30 and not more than 55 years of age with some possible exceptions on a case by case basis.
Couples must be married at least 2 years. Applicants should be of good moral standing, good health, and financially secure.
Single women are also eligible to adopt from KZ. Learn More. Why Adopt from Kazakhstan?
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