Would the US let children enter if they saw irregularities in international adoption documents?

Question

Would the US let children enter if they saw irregularities in international adoption documents?

Answer 1

No.  They would not issue the visa.  I've even heard of children/adoptive familes or escorts being removed from the airplane at the slightest suspicion of irregularities.  Sometimes, the concerns are unfounded, sometimes they are not.  

Example: An agency was escorting children to America and were stopped because one of the airport authorities said that escorting was not legal, it had to be the adoptive parents bringing the children out of the country.  (In this country's case, not true.  Escorting is legal).  But, the escorts and children had to depart and secure a letter from the appropriate (local) government offical before returning to the airport and departing a few days later.  That govt department promised more education to the airport authorities, so it wouldn't happen again.  

But the point is, not only are the US consulates watching, so are local officials.

Answer 2

No, they would not. I think since it's after 9/11 we have to be suspicious, even we are uninformed.

Answer 3

I don't have time to answer this now the way I would like, but I will give a start and try to come back.

The answer to your specific question is no. If they "saw irregularities" they would not let the child(ren) enter. This was part of the issue that led to the current closure of Guatemalan adoptions. And this is affecting several families now who have adopted from Vietnam. The children have been adopted under Vietnamese law, but there are enough irregularities or uncertainties in the documents that they are not being allowed to enter the US. This is absolutely heartbreaking for those children. My understanding is they are rather literally without a country -- like the poor girl abandoned by her Dutch diplomat adoptive parents in Hong Kong. I'll try to provide links to these stories later.

But the more complicated answer to your question is "maybe." Because in many cases the documents have been well enough forged and manipulated that immigration officials cannot tell. The documents are written in foreign languages, for one thing, and in some cases the oversight has not been good enough. But in many cases there has been basic fraud from the beginning, in things that are not reflected at all in the documents. This is the case with Hunan and more recent fraud cases in China, and with Lauren Galindo in Cambodia, and in some cases in India and Guatemala, etc.

Here is one link and it leads to many others:

http://fleasbiting.blogspot.com/

More later, I hope, but you can check my past answers for many links, and/or google with the terms I have included and/or: adoption fraud (name of country) etc.

Answer 4

The obvious answer is no there are too many checks and balances in place.