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Originally Posted By Davis Costa Ssempuuma
We are An Assocition by the names of Uganda Pro Life Association. We request those who are interested in making adoption in Uganda to communicate to us. We also request people of good heart to support our distance adoption program
We are are eagerly waiting to hear from you
Yours Faithfully
Davis Costa Ssempuuma
Chairman /Founder Uganda Pro Life Asociation
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Hi. I'm adopting from Ethiopia, but I have heard from several people who looked into adopting from Uganda that the only way to do it is if you live in Uganda for three years, with the child you plan to adopt.
I don't know for sure if this is the case, but I've heard the same story from each person who looked into adopting from there. As I did not look into Uganda adoptions myself, I can't speak to the truth of this from my own personal experience.
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We have now adopted from Uganda and although neither of us had stayed in Uganda for 3 years we still went to the High Court in Kamapala and successfully obtained an adoption order.
Anyone interested contact me for more information.
The law is also being reviewed and will change later this year.
My husband and I are adopting two infants from Uganda. We have a lawyer over there and this is her advice: "Now concerning adoption in Uganda, most of theregularities are o.k except the issue of having tohave stayed with the child for at least 3 years. Butthe same law provides a way out with this.You can seek what we call a "Guardianship order" whichessentially gives you the same rights as the adoptionorder, including taking the child out of Uganda andher adopting your citizenship. Then after three years of your staying with the childin America, you can then obtain an adoption order,although in my opinion, this would not be necessary,since you would already have all the rights that youwould need through the Guardianship order."
Your lawyer is correct and we know of a number of people who have taken the guardianship order route. We were in a different situation where The Welsh Assembly Government doesn't recognise guardianship orders so we had to apply to the high court in Uganda for an adoption order.
The high court judgement overruled the 3 year residency law.
We won the case because I had met the child 3 years before the court date, had fostered (via an NGO) the child for near enough 3 years and financially supported him for over 3 years.
If you have limited history with the children you are adopting then the court will alomost certainly not grant an adoption order and therefore a guardianship order is the best option.
Our Ugandan son has now lived with us in Wales for over 12 months.
Blessings
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Sir,
I hope you and your son are well.
I would be most grateful to know which lawyers you used, perhaps this would open so many doors firstly, for people in the Child Welfare Office of the Ministry of Gender and Community Services, secondly for the organizations that look after the children and thirdly for people who would be interested in adopting from Uganda.
Hello!
I'm trying to find a good lawyer and am in conversation with 3-4 currently trying to decide with whom to work. If anyone has any recommendations other than Peter Nyombi or Isaac Obiro, I'd be very grateful to hear them.
Also, it seems some lawyers recommend two visits and others can work with just one. Could any of you share your experience? Did you go once or twice and what were each of the visits for? I know Sanyu requires at least one visit to match with a child, but are other babies homes the same?
Thank you very, very much!
Rachel
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Hello!
I'm trying to find a good lawyer and am in conversation with 3-4 currently trying to decide with whom to work. If anyone has any recommendations other than Peter Nyombi or Isaac Obiro, I'd be very grateful to hear them.
Also, it seems some lawyers recommend two visits and others can work with just one. Could any of you share your experience? Did you go once or twice and what were each of the visits for? I know Sanyu requires at least one visit to match with a child, but are other babies homes the same?
Thank you very, very much!
Rachel