ICF International Adoption Program Information
ICF has been in hiatus with several of our programs and at present Mexico is the only country where we are actively working. For your review:
Guatemala and Vietnam remain closed.
Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan are temporarily closed as they restructure their international adoption programs. Kazakhstan may reopen this year as a Hague Convention member state. ICF worked in collaboration with Little Miracles Adoption in Texas for Kazakhstan adoption. Kyrgyzstan plans to reopen and approve a limited number of US agencies to work there. We do not expect to be approved because one of the requirements is ten years of being licensed and ICF has not been licensed for ten years yet. ICF’s Kyrgyzstan program was founded in conjunction with Tatiana Belousova, a US citizen of Kyrgyz origin and founder of St Philomena Adoption, a licensed adoption agency in Colorado. We applied for approval nonetheless, because we felt our record of adoptions, which included older and special needs children, as well as our humanitarian aid, spoke well of our agency core values. We await the decision of the Kyrgyz ministries.
Haiti, while open, has not been an active program for ICF. Our former facilitator, Vera Valdivia, worked in the relief effort after the earthquake, and then returned to the US. She continues to work on behalf of Haitian women and children with her “Famn pou Famn” micro-business project in Haiti. We are hopeful that Vera will return to Haiti because she is our trusted facilitator and we would like to resume the adoption program. Funding is needed to open an orphanage.
Mexico is our currently active program. To date we have completed the following adoptions: in 2009, 1 adoption; in 2010, 1 adoption; in 2011, 2 adoptions; and as of February 15, 2012, we have 1 adoption close to completion and 15 families in process.
ICF provides home study and post placement or post adoption services for all countries. We welcome your inquiries and are happy to share additional information and references.
US Dept of State Intercountry Adoption Statistics
For the complete Fiscal Year 2011 report on international adoption from the US Dept of State, visit http://adoption.state.gov/content/pdf/fy2011_annual_report.pdf
