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Originally Posted By BrandyCANADIAN IMMIGRATIONAND THEADOPTION PROCESS Canadians considering international adoption should contact Citizenship and Immigration Canada directly regarding the requirements and procedures for bringing a foreign adopted child to Canada. The website is Generally, the procedure in Canada for international adoption is as follows: Homestudy is completed by a social worker. The provincial Ministry of Community and Social Services (or the Ministry for Children and Families, in British Columbia) reviews the homestudy and issues a Letter of Recommendation for the foreign authorites and adoptive agency/attorney. Adoptive family contacts an adoption agency/attorney (this step may occur simultaneously with the above steps). Adoptive family files application with Employment and Immigration Canada to sponsor the child that they intend to adopt. (a) Employment and Immigration Canada requests a letter of no objection from the Ministry. (b) The Ministry provides a Letter of No Knowledge (indicating that they have no knowledge of adoption arrangement). Adoptive parents travel to child's country to finalize the adoption The Canadian Embassy/Consulate in the child's country issues a Canadian visa for the child. Child enters Canada as legal son/daughter of adoptive parents. a. According to Canadian immigration law, adoptive parents must begin the immigration process by completing an "Undertaking of Assistance" at Citizenship and Immigration Canada for the admission of the children they are adopting from a foreign country. - Information about International Adoption, Ont. MCSS, 12/96 b. Canadian Immigration Regulation 6(1)(c) requires letters of "no objection" from provincial authorities when children have been or will be adopted in other jurisdictions by parents who reside in Canada or when children are being sponsored for admission to Canada for the purpose of adoption by Canadians. The request for Letters of No Objection are made by the Immigration Case Processing Center to the Ministry of Community and Social Services directly. After reviewing the case, the Ministry will respond to the request directly to the Canadian Embassy in the country where the child resides with a copy to the Immigration Case Processing Center. The sponsoring applicants will also receive a copy of the response. - Information about International Adoption, Ont. MCSS, 12/96
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Originally Posted By BDoes anyone know why the policy for obtaining a visa for a child adopted from Haiti is stated as one thing in Canada, but in actual fact is different, and actually more difficult in Haiti? The policy, as told to us by Immigration Canada in Canada, states that to obtain the child's visa, the child's Haitian passport may be in just his Haitian birth name and when submitted along with the adoption papers, which show his Haitian birth name with his new adoptive last name added on, a visa will be issued. In Haiti, the Canadian authorities are disallowing this and requiring that the passport also have the adoptive last name listed. This creates a problem, as this 'red flags' the passport application as an adoption passport and the passport office then feels the need to investigate all of the original adoption paperwork. There are families that have been waiting for their child's passport for over eight months because of this policy.
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