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How many post palcement visit neeeded by CA for Intercountry Adoption? According to SB1393 one needed!?

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My wife and I adopted a girl form abroad she is now with us.

After extensive research we decided to get her US passport for her . We did follow the protocol outlined on the state Department on Child Citizen act of

2000. But The passport agency in LA required us to get Citizenship certificate or CA Court ordered readoption or other documents. We do have a full and final adoption decrees form the country of origin recognized by US Government. When we ask the agency that did our home study they told us we have to petition the court to get CA Delayed birth certificate but we need 4 post placement visit. According to SB1393 signed by the governor we need on post placement visit since we did inter country adoption which has strict requirement before we adopted. Our adopted daughter Came to California

under H4 Visa and has been issued green Card. We are a naturalized citizens. Please respond only if you have knowledge in Inter country adoption or facing the same issue.

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  1. I don't know about California laws, but if you adopted internationally, that country will require a certain number of post-placement reports.  Your agency can loose their liscence if you don't do the number of post-placement reports required by the foreign government you worked with.  This can jeopardize adoptions from that country.  I know that Russia was a program that stopped for a short while due to parents not meeting their post-placement obligations.


  2. I'm a little confused by your post. It's my understanding that the designations for International adoption visas are IR3 and IR4 (not H4). H4 appears to be a visa issued to spouses and children of H visa holders, not to adopted children of citizens.

    If your child came in under an IR3 visa, they do not need to be readopted and the passport agency should accept your foreign birth certificate, foreign passport and foreign adoption decree.

    If your child came into the US under an IR4 visa (often the case when children are "escorted" to the US for adoption), then you would need to readopt, even if the child was also adopted in the other country. (The readoption requirements vary by state, so California may or may not have a post-placement requirement.)

    Can you confirm the visa designation of your child.

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