Al bijna drie maanden kamperen ouders in Oeganda omdat ze land niet uit kunnen met hun adoptiekinderen

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Situation of adopted children from Uganda

03.August.2016 · Posted in APO-OPA

Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Didier Reynders regrets the method used by the Flemish Centre for Adoption (Kind & Gezin), which reported this morning in a press release that the Belgian Embassy in Kampala (Uganda) refused an entry visa to nine parents, who wanted to leave with ten adopted children from Kampala to Belgium. He regrets especially that those nine parents are caught up in that situation.

The Flemish Centre for Adoption should take into account the applicable legal rules in Uganda.

The Embassy in Kampala received so far only for four of those ten children a visa application. Those were, according to the existing procedures concerning visa applications, timely forwarded for further processing to the Immigration Office (DVZ/ODE). DVZ/ODE is the competent authority that can take a decision in these matters. But the final decision for departure to our country lies in the hands of the Ugandan government.

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