On July 28, 2017, the Department of State designated Intercountry Adoption Accreditation and Maintenance Entity, Inc., (IAAME) as an accrediting entity (AE) under the Intercountry Adoption Act of 2000 (IAA) in accordance with 22 CFR Part 96.  The designation is for a period of five years.

IAAME is the second designated AE, joining the Council on Accreditation, whose designation was renewed July 11, 2016 for an additional five years.  IAAME’s responsibilities as an AE will commence upon:  1) the Department of State’s approval of systems, procedures, and a fee schedule that will be coordinated as necessary to ensure consistency in accreditation systems and procedures used by both AEs; and 2) the Department of State’s determination of jurisdictional parameters. 

The Office of Children’s Issues will provide additional information as it becomes available.

For NRIs, adoption dream no child's play

Picture for representational purpose

AMRITA MADHUKALYA | Mon, 7 Aug 2017-07:45am , New Delhi , DNA

Australia had suspended adoption involving Indians since 2011

Vivek and his wife Ramya gave up a perfect life in Sydney earlier this year and relocated to India. The couple, who wanted to adopt a child, were told by officials that non-resident Indian couples are not allowed to adopt Indian children in Australia. In Chennai, where they are based now, Vivek is finding it hard to rebuild his career.

Left-Right: Chris Huth, Miles, Wyatt and Jack Eblen.

Photo courtesy: Wyatt Eblen

Earlier this year, the journey of Saroo Brierley – was released in the form of a film titled Lion featuring Nicole Kidman and Dev Patel. Saroo, who was born in India, was only five when he was separated from his family, but he finally found his hometown and his family after almost two decades of living in Australia as he was living there with his adoptive parents. Here, is the journey of yet another boy who returned to his hometown, Bhiwandi, in search of his family.

On August 4, 2017, at 7.56 pm, I walked into a backpackers hostel in Kurla to meet four guys - Chris Huth, Wyatt, Miles and Jack Eblen.

I met them for the first time about ten days ago – the very day when Chris and Miles got into an autorickshaw accident that left Chris with hand injuries enough to be drugged out the entire time I was there.

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Earlier this year, the journey of Saroo Brierley – was released in the form of a film titled Lion featuring Nicole Kidman and Dev Patel. Saroo, who was

born in India, was only five when he was separated from his family, but he finally found his hometown and his family after almost two decades of living

in Australia as he was living there with his adoptive parents. Here, is the journey of yet another boy who returned to his hometown, Bhiwandi, in search of

his family.

On August 4, 2017, at 7.56 pm, I walked into a backpackers hostel in Kurla to meet four guys - Chris Huth, Wyatt, Miles and Jack Eblen.

BHIWANDI: When Christopher Huth, a 27-year-old special education teacher and soccer coach in the US, embarked on a journey to India two months ago, it was on a crucial mission: to find his roots, his family in Bhiwandi. For, two decades ago, he lived here with his family, before he was sent off by his mother to an Andhra orphanage, from where he was adopted by a US couple.
 

All that he remembers is that he spent his childhood in Bhiwandi where his two elder brothers, Deepak Mistry and Sagar, worked in textile units. He also recalls that his sister would call him Sai.

Explaining his search for his family, Huth, who lives outside Washington DC, said that since his family was poor, his mother sent him and his sister, Asha, to an ashram in Sandur town of Andhra Pradesh, when he was five and his sister seven. While his sister fled the place within six months, he was adopted by a US couple in 1997, when he was seven. During adoption, his name was given as Praveen Kumar. Later, his name was changed to Christopher.

He said that for the past two months, he along with his three friends from US and one from Delhi has been in India searching for his family. They first went to the Andhra town, where they learnt the orphanage was shut 17 years ago. He met to one of caretakers, but could not get any details about his family.
 

Christopher, who came to Mumbai on Friday, met the local tehsildar and some locals and sought their help in finding his family by showing them photographs from his childhood.

16 MONTHS LATER, 3-YR-OLD GIRL REUNITED WITH FAMILY

By Vicky Pathare, Pune Mirror | Aug 4, 2017, 02.30 AM IST

16 months later, 3-yr-old girl reunited with family

Tanishka with her parents Priyanka and Sachin Kamble

Tanishka went missing from Pune Junction; Sofosh and GRP find her home in Kolhapur

Abducted, found, adopted, reunited with parents: Circle of life

According to Sharmila Sayed, administration in-charge of SOFOSH, Pune, Tanishka was baffled when she was admitted to SOFOSH.

PUNE Updated: Aug 04, 2017 17:45 IST

Yogesh Joshi

Yogesh Joshi

Life took 360 degree turn for a girl who was stolen from Pune railway station a year ago and was up for adoption when she was admitted in SOFOSH, child care agency. On Wednesday when a couple reserved her for adoption, he real parents landed up in SOFOSH.

Life took 360 degree turn for a girl who was stolen from Pune railway station a year ago and was up for adoption when she was admitted in SOFOSH, child care agency. On Wednesday when a couple reserved her for adoption, he real parents landed up in SOFOSH.(HT PHOTO)

Life has taken a few bizarre, sharp turns for this four-year-old girl, that too in the space of a year’s time. She first suddenly went missing from the Pune railway station around 16 months ago.

Four months later, the girl suddenly re-appeared, barely a few metres from where she was reportedly abducted by an unidentified person.

On Thursday, the girl, now admitted to the Society of Friends of Sassoon Hospital (SOFOSH) unit, was re-united with her biological parents, just as another couple had reserved her for adoption.

Ujjwal Niketan has never received any aid from any governmental or government-aided agency and most of the funds were sourced from individuals, according to the management

Ujjwal Niketan has never received any aid from any governmental or government-aided agency and most of the fun... Read More

Gurgaon: The counsel for Sister Lily Baretto, Shaju Francis, who had represented her in Saturday's anticipatory bail hearing, clarified to TOI that there isn't any charge of trafficking against his client.

He said in the first FIR, the sister has only been charged under sections 75 (punishment for cruelty to child) and 80 (adoption without following prescribed procedure) of the Juvenile Justice Act, while the second was registered under sections 420 (cheating), 467 (forgery of valuable security), 468 (forgery for purpose of cheating) and 471 (using as genuine as fraud) of the IPC.

Regarding the charge of not following procedures while giving away two minor girls for adoption, the counsel, Francis and Drishti Mishra, told the court that while the "correctness" of giving away the two minor girls for adoption using a "single adoption deed" might be debated, it cannot be used to attribute malice on part of Baretto, adding the two girls were siblings, who were placed at the shelter home by their aunt, who could not take care of them. The lawyers also clarified the children were never entrusted to the orphanage by CWC, so giving them away for adoption, Baretto had acted by guidelines for "rehabilitation and social re-integration" in Section 39 of the JJ Act.