Adoption Conflict In Nepal

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Adoption Conflict in Nepal Landlocked country between India and Tibetan; as well as containing Mount Everest. The 3rd world country Nepal is a farm land country and has a population of about 30,000,000 people. Nepal is a very pour region, as 60% of the population lives under the poverty line. This makes Nepal one of the least developed countries in the world. In 2001 inter-national adoption agencies stumbled upon Nepal and opened up an agency in the capital of Kathmandu. When first started there were eight adoptions and in 2006 there were a total of 394 adoptions. The exorbitant jump brought attention from the media as something corrupt seemed to be occurring. Little did they know they would find problems with the agencies involving traffickers …show more content…

As more research was done they found that the agencies changed the children’s birth certificates and the age of some children to appeal to adoptive families in the western countries. Families that were already in the adoption process before the date of the suspension (August 6,2010) must endure a longer waiting period than expected as the Consular Officers are required to conduct an I-604 investigation: makes sure that the child is truly and orphan and isn’t someone’s child who is looking for and or thinks they are out getting an education as some traffickers offered, the process takes several months and will decide if the family can continue in the adoption process or not. If the family passes the I-604 then they will enter another waiting process as the Department of Homeland Security Citizen and Immigration Services has to approve the adoption, the forms, and give the child a visa so they child can come to America with the adoptive parent. Today there is still hope to reopen the adoption in Nepal as the U.S. embassy in Kathmandu continues to meet with officials inside the government of Nepal and help fix the damage and all the false paper work of the children, and on February 25,2010 they issued the International Adoption Working Group as they hope to work swiftly and strengthen the adoption …show more content…

This ratio shows how many of the children are not inside the adoption services for the right reason as only very few are actual orphans. Some of the children inside the homes are not eligible for adoption from certain places and will make it increasingly difficult and more time consuming till adoption takes place; as the Nepalese law says children must be abandoned to be adopted, to be categorized as abandoned the child must be given up at birth or left at a hospital, as long as parents provide hospitals with forms for the