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Bit of a strange question...
Where we live, adoptees have access to their original birth certificates. I know this is not the case in every state.
I am hoping that we will be matched/chosen by birth parents who would like to have an open adoption - so our future child will know their names etc.
However, while we have custody of our future child but before the adoption is finalized, I am assuming that we'd see a copy of the original birth certificate?
Is there anything to stop us from keeping a copy of the OBC? Or would that be a legal no-no?
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We never saw the original birth certificate. The hospital made us a keepsake birth certificate. I can't remember if it had the bmom's name on it-I think it did. I don't know what the laws are. We know everything about bmom, even her social, so I don't know why there would be a reason to keep the original birth certificate from us but laws are funny.
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I saw one when I was taking him on a cruise and I saw OBC's for my 2 youngest when they wanted to be signed up for sports.
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Our son's bmom has his OBC. She siad she'd make a copy so I can put it in his lifebook.
In our state (Illinois) you get the amended birth certificate when the adoption is finalized. The APs never see the OBC.
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You can use IRS Form W7-A (available on line at IRS.org)to obtain an Adoption Tax Identification Number (ATIN) which can be used in place of a social security number until your adoption is finalized.
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Actually... legally no-one but the IRS is supposed to use ITINs (I know because my husband is not a US citizen so we've been round all the avenues getting him ID etc.)
I know that loads of healthcare providers use them but they are not supposed to.
Does anyone know about passports (we are likely to need to travel before the adoption is finalised)
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You are confusing ITIN with ATIN, which is an ADOPTION TAX IDENTIFICATION NUMBER. The ATIN is used to provide a temporary social security number for a child who has been placed in your home for the purpose of adoption, but the adoption is not yet finalized. Take a look at the IRS FORM W7-A, it should help explain this. Sara Howard, Chicago adoption attorney.
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Oh, that is so helpful, thank you - I have seen it referred to as ITIN, or TIN which both sound like what my husband had to get at one point to enrol in healthcare and do taxes.
Do you happen to know what would happen about getting a passport - would the adoptive parents have the birth certificate at that point?
I am most familiar with adoption from foster care, where the prospective adopters would have all the information about the child's birth family unless it wasn't safe to do so so infant domestic adoption is getting me a little confused.
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We never saw Jack's original birth certificate either. The state of Missouri had a 6 month backlog on creating birth certificates, so actually, I don't think anyone actually has it. I know California is notoriously slow on birth certs. too.
:hippie:
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When I took my teenager, he was able to use a birth certificate. for my 2 youngest, the cw came out and did the paperwork for the passport. Of course, I now have to change it.
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millie58
When I took my teenager, he was able to use a birth certificate. for my 2 youngest, the cw came out and did the paperwork for the passport. Of course, I now have to change it.
That makes great sense, so you can have a passport, but as you aren't yet legal parents, the agency does the paperwork.
I understand now!
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Just know that in the last few years getting a passport is harder and can take a while depending on where you are.
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