**Alert** Adoption Notice: Japan how will this effect Across the World Adoptions everyone's "favorite" adoption agency SNICKER

Adoption Notice: Japan

Last Updated: April 13, 2018

The Department of State is currently reviewing Japanese law regarding the transfer of custody of a child without a court order, which may affect a child’s eligibility for an adoption-based visa under the Immigration and Nationality Act.  The Department urges families with pending I-600 petitions and immigrant visa applications based on the transfer of custody of children - if such applications do not involve a court order - to consider deferring their travel to Japan to complete the visa process at this time.  The Department also urges adoption agencies not to make new referrals to U.S. prospective adoptive parents in such cases until further notice.

Please continue to monitor adoption.state.gov for updated information.  For questions about this notice or adoption related visa processing, please email the Office of Children’s Issues at adoption@ate.gov 

Long overdue, the rates they were charging were huge and they dealt with Mamas and Papas single mother home where supposedly the mother got to pick the portfolio of the adoptive parents for her child.  

Across the World Adoptions are nasty lying people, who have harmed a lot of people needlessly

with their DIRTY filthy gossip and that nasty lying director with a bad plastic surgery and gastric bypass surgery Lesley Siegel,  It took 13 years but we won't stop until this industry is closed down for good.  You should have thought about that before you treated me and my family like filth and was not transparent.  Lesley Siegel you and Cara both have spoke about me to Bennet Kelley who is going down in California.  

It's clearly over for your business, time to activate your law license so you can actually practice law instead of buying and selling kids.  

Meanwhile 83 American children were adopted overseas 

The overall number of adoptions to the United States in FY 2017 was 4,714, a decline of 658 from the previous year. This decline is primarily attributable to changes in two countries – China and the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). The drop in China, to 1,905 intercountry adoptions, mostly stems from changes in Chinese domestic laws related to the governance of non-governmental organizations. These laws were not targeted specifically at adoption, but have had a detrimental impact on the partnerships between U.S. adoption service providers and specific provinces that were designed to improve opportunities for children with special needs. Ninety-eight percent of the intercountry adoptions from China involved children with special needs. We are actively engaged in dialogue with our Chinese counterparts on this issue. The decline from the DRC stems from the fact the country no longer issues exit permits to adopted Congolese children seeking to depart the country with their adoptive parents. The Congolese government has indicated it is working on legislative changes regarding adoption. However, until the Congolese government provides further clarity, the Department strongly recommends against the initiation of new adoptions in the DRC. In FY2017, 83 children were adopted from the United States to seven countries, including Canada (41), Ireland (12), and the Netherlands (20). 

https://travel.state.gov/content/dam/NEWadoptionassets/pdfs/Annual%20Report%20on%20Intercountry%20Adoptions%20FY2017%20(release%20date%20March%2023%2020.._.pdf