Adoption Notice

U.S. DEPARTMENT OF STATE
Bureau of Consular Affairs
Office of Children’s Issues

February 5, 2009

The U.S. Department of State does not recommend that U.S. citizens begin new adoption cases from Georgia at this time because of changes in the country’s intercountry adoption process. The Georgian Government has recently transferred responsibility for adoptions from the Ministry of Education to the Ministry of Health, and the Ministry of Health is currently in the process of developing procedures both to refer children to prospective adopting parents and to review and process adoption cases to completion.

According to local experts, no new international adoption cases are being processed at this time. 

The U.S. Embassy continues to monitor the situation and will provide updated information as soon as it is received.