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Malysian Baby-for-sale racket crippled
From The Sun Daily: A baby-for-sale racket that is said to have sold dozens of newborn babies of single mothers over the past five years was crippled by police in an operation in Klang over the past two weeks. The single mothers were Indonesians, Filipinos and Vietnamese, who were either legal or illegal workers here. [...]
Philippines: Simpler child adoption laws pushed
From ABS-CBN News The Philippines needs simpler laws for potential parents who want to adopt orphans and neglected children, Senate Minority Leader Aquilino Pimentel Jr. said on Tuesday Pimentel said he is drafting a bill that prescribes new ways of alternative child care and will consolidate all laws on domestic adoption and inter-country adoption, foster [...]
Tuberculosis Screening and Treatment
Changes to Tuberculosis Screening and Treatment for immigrants are being implemented in stages in different geographic areas; these changes may affect travel for adoptive families, particularly for those families adopting HIV positive children. Specifically, on October 6, 2008, the Department of Health and Human Services and Center for Disease Control (CDC) published an Interim Final [...]
MORATORUIM ON ACCEPTING NEW APPLICANTS
From the Filipino Inter-County Adoption Board: April 23, 2009 Dear Partners of ICAB, Due to the large number of unmatched approved adoption applications of Prospective Adoptive Parents wanting to adopt children within the age range of 0-2 years old with or without medical/developmental concerns coupled with the limited number of chidlren of such category, effective [...]
Laws & Regulations
The Philippines is party to the Hague Convention on Protection of Children and Co-operation in Respect of Intercountry Adoption. Therefore all adoptions between The Philippines and the United States must meet the requirements of the Convention and U.S. law implementing the Convention. Office of Children’s Issues: Philippines Country Info US Embassy – Manila: Adoption page [...]
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