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Immigration: Adoption

Question for Home Office

UIN HL2900, tabled on 6 November 2017

To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Baroness Williams of Trafford on 26 October (HL2021), which member states of the UN have adoption laws that are not recognised as lawful in the UK.

Answered on

14 November 2017

Children who claim to be adopted are not treated differently to biological children in determining immigration cases.

The UK automatically recognises adoptions from the list of designated countries that can be found at: https://www.gov.uk/guidance/intercountry-adoption-information-for-adoption-agencies. The adoption order is required as proof of such adoptions.

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