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The progress report will be taken into consideration in deciding whether or not to issue the decree of adoption. The adopting parents are also required to submit a progress report of the child’s adjustment. During such period, the adopters, as custodian, will exercise substitute parental authority over the person of the child.

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The trial custody is for a period of six (6) months from the time of placement. Once all the travel documents of the child are ready, the adoptive parents, or any one of them, shall personally fetch the child in the Philippines. In such a case, the adopters must pay the expenses incidental to the pre-adoptive placement of the child, including the cost of the child’s travel, medical and psychological evaluation and other related expenses. The applicants cannot directly engage in any matching arrangement with a particular child’s parents/guardians, as all matching processes should be conducted and approved by the ICAB.Īfter matching, there will be trial custody where the child will be physically transferred to the adopters. Prior to adoption, and in order to ensure a mutually satisfying parent-child relationship, a matching conference will be carried out where the children available for adoption will be judiciously paired with the applicants. If the applicant is in the Philippines, the application may also be filed with the Philippine Regional Trial Court having jurisdiction over the child.įor purposes of inter-country adoption, any child who has been voluntarily or involuntarily committed to the Department of Social Welfare and Development (“DSWD”) as dependent, abandoned or neglected, may be adopted. The applicant may file the application with the Inter-Country Adoption Board (“ICAB”) through the Central Authority or an accredited Foreign Adoption Agency (FAA) in the country where he/she resides. 8043, otherwise known as the Inter-Country Adoption Act, any qualified foreign national or Filipino citizen permanently residing abroad desiring to adopt a Filipino child need not go to the Philippines to apply for adoption. It is allowed when the same is proven beneficial to the child’s best interests, and will serve and protect his/her fundamental rights. This mode of adoption may be considered as a last resort after all possibilities for domestic adoption of the child have been exhausted. Inter-country adoption is the socio-legal process of adopting a Filipino child by a foreigner or a Filipino citizen permanently residing abroad. Will this put an end to his hope of having a family?

Suppose a neglected and abandoned child, despite all efforts, could not be placed with an adoptive family in the Philippines. To indicate your interest in the Philippines programme, please email us at We will respond to your Inquiry with our information email and details of how you can pre-register with HHAMA to avail of our service.Published 17 December 2018, The Daily Tribune However, with the granting of provisional accreditation HHAMA is now able to process applications for The Philippines programme.Īs with all our adoption programmes, we recommend applicants contact us for an overview of all country programmes as selecting a country is an important decision and by discussing the different programmes with HHAMA applicants can be helped to make a decision which is informed and realistic in terms of completing an adoption.

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The approval process for full formal accreditation by ICAB requires a visit to the HHAMA premises and, due to current travel restrictions globally, that has had to be postponed. HHAMA is delighted to announce that we have been granted provisional approval to mediate the intercountry adoption programme with The Philippines.

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