United States of America

Country Code: US
Area: 5,984,687 sq mi (9,631,420km²)
Gross Domestic Product: 12,229 Billion Dollar
Population: 301,959,000

Country related organizations and persons

Organization	Link	Country	From	To
Barack Obama	President of	United States of America	2009-01-20
Bill Clinton	President of	United States of America	1993-01-20	2001-01-20
Dick Cheney	Vice-president of	United States of America	2001-01-20	2009-01-20
Embassy of Ethiopia in the United States of America	Embassy in	United States of America
Embassy of the People's Republic of China in the United States of America	Embassy in	United States of America
Embassy of the Russian Federation in the United States of America	Embassy in	United States of America
George H. W. Bush	President of	United States of America	1989-01-20	1993-01-20
George W. Bush	President of	United States of America	2001-01-20	2009-01-20
Gerald Ford	President of	United States of America	1974-08-09	1977-01-20
Hillary Rodham Clinton	Secretary of state of	United States of America	2009-01-21	2013-02-01
Joe Biden	Vice-president of	United States of America	2009-01-20
John Kerry	Secretary of state of	United States of America	2013-02-01
U.S Embassy in Moscow	Embassy of	United States of America
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services	Department of	United States of America
U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development	Department of	United States of America
U.S. Embassy in Cambodia	Embassy of	United States of America
U.S. Embassy in China	Embassy of	United States of America
U.S. Embassy in Ethiopia	Embassy of	United States of America
U.S. Embassy in Romania	Embassy of	United States of America
U.S. Embassy in South Korea	Embassy of	United States of America
U.S. State Department	Department of	United States of America
U.S. State Department	Central authority of	United States of America

Agencies operating in United States of America

Organization	From	To
Voice for International Development and Adoptions (VIDA)

Cases:

Child trafficking cases

Report	Date
Argentina - Children stolen during the Civil War case	1990-01-01
Brazil - misc trafficking cases	1980-01-01
Brazil - Judge Luiz Beethoven Giffoni Ferreira case	1992-01-01
Cambodia - misc trafficking articles case	1990-01-01
Cambodia - Camryn Mosley (Songkea) case	1999-08-01
Cambodia - Lauryn Galindo Case	1990-01-01
Cambodia - Main Dim's son aka Sam	2004-03-07
Cambodia - Sea Visoth / Khmer American Orphans Association case	2001-12-07
Cambodia - Serey Puth - Asian Orphans Association (AOA)	2001-09-14
Cambodia - Srey Lieu and Srey Mom, Kim Sophoan's daughters	1997-01-01
Chile - misc child trafficking articles case	1990-01-01
China - misc trafficking articles	1999-01-01
China - Family Planning in Gaoping county Hunan Province case	2010-06-25
China - Family Planning in Longhui County Hunan Province case	2011-05-10
China - Family Planning in Zhenyuan county Guizhou province case	2009-07-01
China - Hunan Child trafficking case	2005-11-17
Costa Rica - misc trafficking cases	1957-01-27
Egypt - misc child trafficking	2009-01-01
El Salvador - misc trafficking cases	1989-01-01
El Salvador - Attorney Roberto del Cid or Roberto del Cid Aguirre case	1989-06-26
El Salvador - Attorney Roberto Parada and his wife Ilkea case	1987-12-01
El Salvador - Children stolen during Civil War case	1979-01-01
El Salvador - Imelda Auron and Maria Cebollero case	2005-01-01
El Salvador - Imelda Lopez Lainez (Gina Marie Craig) case	1994-06-15
El Salvador - Michael Kennedy (Jose Oliva) and his 3 sisters case	1981-01-01
El Salvador - Peter Cassidy (Ernesto Sibrian) case	1984-08-28
El Salvador - Rosa Alicia Campos Mancia's 3 children - Jane Weideman Viasana case	1982-11-16
El Salvador - Suzanne Marie Berghaus (Maria Sáenz Argueta) case	1982-02-01
Ethiopia - misc child trafficking cases	2009-01-01
Ethiopia - Better Future Adoption Services case	2010-08-18
Ethiopia - Johnson siblings	2009-05-01
Ethiopia - Journee, Meya, and Maree Bradshaw	2010-02-15
Greece - child trafficking case	1989-01-01
Guatemala - more trafficking articles and stolen children cases	1979-01-01
Guatemala - Álvaro Daniel Suruy son of María Suruy case	2008-01-21
Guatemala - Angelyn Lisseth Hernández Rodríguez (aka Dulce Maria or Karen Abigail) daughter of Loira Rodríguez case	2006-11-03
Guatemala - Arlene Escarleth (aka Cindy) daughter of Olga Lopez case	2006-09-27
Guatemala - Athanasios Kollias case (aka Thanassis or Teo) case	2008-01-20
Guatemala - Candida, Claudia, Enma Galacia case	2008-01-20
Guatemala - Casa Quivira case	2007-08-11
Guatemala - Children stolen during the Civil War case	1996-01-01
Guatemala - Esther Sulamita daughter of Ana Escobar case	2007-03-26
Guatemala - Gerson Canté son of Luz Maribel Hernández Canté case	2008-01-21
Guatemala - Heidy or Heidi Saraí Batz (aka Kimberly), daughter of Raquel Par case	2006-04-06
Guatemala - Jonathan Martínez Sol (aka Luis Pablo Pérez), son of Thelma Christina and Juan Carlos Martínez case	2007-06-20
Guatemala - lawyer Juan Varela aka "nino bandito" "baby bandit" case	1996-01-01
Guatemala - Manuel de Jesus son of Marta Lidia Barrientos	2006-10-02
Guatemala - Maria Eugenia Cua Yax (aka Hazel) case	2007-06-30
Guatemala - Maria Fernanda and Ana Christina Alvarado case	2006-08-01
Guatemala - Marlen Sofia Diaz Borrayo, daughter of Iris Xiomera Borrayo	1998-02-13
Guatemala - Ricardo Borz (Osmin Ricardo Tobar Ramirez) and Jeffrey (Jeffrey Rainiery Arias Ramírez)	1997-08-06
Guatemala - Rosalinda Arleny Rivera Estrada case	2008-05-01
Guatemala - Semillas de Amor case	2008-05-12
Guatemala - son of Gladys Caal Suc case	2007-05-11
Guatemala - Susana Luarca case	1997-01-01
Guatemala - trafficking ring in Coatepeque	2000-01-01
Guatemala / Costa Rica - International Adoption Resource (FL) and Rolf Levy case	2003-12-12
Honduras - misc trafficking cases	1984-01-01
India - misc Child trafficking cases	1995-01-01
India - Bhagya and Manjula case	1998-11-01
India - Malaysian Social Services case	2008-08-23
India - St Theresa's Tender Loving Care & Priyamvada, 3 yr old from St Theresa's TLC	2004-04-02
India - Subash (aka Ashraf) son of Sivagama and Nageshwar Rao case	1999-02-08
Korea - misc child trafficking cases	1971-01-01
Laos - misc child trafficking case	2012-02-06
Liberia - Misc. trafficking cases	2006-01-01
Liberia - West African Children Support Network case	2008-11-01
Madonna - Mercy aka Chifundo James	2007-03-28
Mexico - misc trafficking articles case	1997-01-01
Mexico - Amado Torres and Maria Isabel Hernandez case	2008-05-01
Mexico - Arlene Lieberman, Arlene Reingold and Mario Reyes case	1996-01-01
Nepal - misc trafficking articles case	2007-03-07
Nepal - Kaushal and Karuna, children of Rajan Kumar Nepali and wife Maya	2009-06-01
Pakistan - misc child trafficking cases	2009-01-01
Paraguay - misc trafficking cases	1989-01-01
Peru - misc child trafficking cases	1980-01-01
Republic of Marshall Islands (RMI) - child trafficking case	1998-01-01
Romania / Hungary - John Davies - Adam Children's Fund	1993-01-01
Russia - misc child trafficking articles case	1994-11-23
Russia - Maria Bednova	1999-01-01
Russia - Yunona: Ivan Jerdev and Vladimir Jerdev case	2006-01-24
Samoa - Focus on Children - Scott & Karen Banks case	2002-02-01
Samoa - Elleia Nyberg (Sei So)	2004-06-01
Samoa - Fa'anunu and Tafiau Faiupu's 3 children: Lasi Fa'anunu, Motumotu and Fa’afetaitasi case	2003-01-01
Samoa - J.T. case	2003-05-01
Samoa - Michael Ulisese McKrola (Posi Iva)	2003-01-01
Sierra Leone - HANCI case	2002-01-01
Uganda - Americans for African Adoptions and Joseph Kagimu case	2010-01-01
Ukraine - misc Child trafficking	1993-01-01
United States/Ukraine - Theresa Erickson, Hilary Neiman case	2011-03-01
Vietnam - misc trafficking articles case	1998-01-01
Vietnam - An Giang Province - Le Quoc Binh case	1995-01-01
Vietnam - Asian Orphans of Hope case	2001-04-08
Vietnam - Mai-Ly Latrace/Project Faith case	2000-01-01
Vietnam - Mary Payne Nguyen case	1995-01-01
Vietnam - My Linh Soland aka My-Linh Duong Soland case	2006-07-11
Vietnam - Nam Dinh province case	2008-07-01
Vietnam - Ruc children of Quang Binh Province	2010-03-14
Vietnam - Tia Sang Orphanage	2010-08-01
Zambia - misc child trafficking articles	2007-08-07

Adoption statistics:

Adoption imports

Country from	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014
China	5058	4705	6116	6857	7038	7903	6492	5453	3911	3001	3401	2589	2697	2306	2040
Russian Federation	4286	4292	4950	5221	5862	4631	3702	2303	1857	1586	1082	970	748	250	2
Guatemala	1516	1610	2419	2328	3264	3783	4135	4727	4122	756	51	32	7	23	29
Ethiopia	95	165	105	165	284	442	731	1254	1724	2277	2513	1727	1568	993	716
Republic of Korea (South Korea)	1784	1862	1776	1793	1713	1628	1373	938	1065	1080	863	736	627	138	370
Ukraine	658	1240	1094	692	793	824	463	613	490	610	445	632	395	438	521
Kazakhstan	382	658	482	828	835	755	588	547	380	295	181	86
Haiti	130	192	187	248	355	234	310	191	301	330	1223	33	154	388	464
India	500	542	453	473	406	323	319	411	308	297	243	228	159	119	136
Vietnam	728	736	766	382	21	7	163	828	748	481	9
Colombia	245	265	334	272	285	287	344	309	306	238	235	216	195	159	172
Phillipines	171	219	221	211	199	268	248	260	292	281	214	230	125	178	172
Taiwan	28	42	49	107	108	141	187	184	266	253	285	205	177	94	69
Nigeria	4	33	8	47	70	65	62	33	149	110	189	148	197	183	130
Liberia	25	47	23	27	86	183	353	314	254	35	48	29	34	12	16
Uganda	1	3	18	3	16	17	12	54	55	69	62	207	238	276	201
Ghana	13	18	8	6	13	20	27	38	97	103	117	100	171	170	124
Bulgaria	214	296	260	198	110	30	28	20	5	15	40	75	125	159	183
Democratic Republic of the Congo		6	6		1	11			9	21	42	133	240	313	230
Romania	1119	777	169	200	57	2		3	2	5					3
Poland	84	96	114	111	101	73	67	84	77	50	50	52	35	49	53
Cambodia	797	811	384	147	47	6	2
Mexico	106	72	61	61	89	88	70	89	105	72	53	22	21	21	12
Thailand	87	68	67	71	70	71	56	66	59	56	55	45	57	36	28
Jamaica	39	51	30	36	52	62	49	46	39	54	59	100	43	79	61
Latvia	25	27	32	17	15	28	24	34	38	28	39	56	82	89	80
Nepal	13	6		42	73	62	66	42	54	6	30	65	3		1
Brazil	26	33	26	30	69	66	66	55	46	32	27	9	21	23	9
Pakistan	20	24	25	24	31	22	47	35	47	33	41	25	29	47	31
Japan	33	38	40	35	43	28	42	33	35	41	33	27	21	22	20
Guyana	5	18	18	21	36	27	19	23	25	38	32	45	36	50	39
Belarus	46	129	169	191	202	21						1
Peru	46	23		16	21	28	37	37	30	29	35	13	26	21	30
Morocco	7	6	7	9	7	6	10	7	12	20	32	46	57	24	43
Armenia	9	27	16	40	31	20	46	32	29	20	18	22	19	12	9
Rwanda	1	2		1	3		4	5	17	16	40	58	23
Nicaragua	11	12		11	11	24	43	27	10	28	11	30	21	37	32
Ecuador	57	50	1	44	28	20	31	18	26	13	12	6	15	11	11
Lithuania	30	29	21	15	29	26	14	27	16	22	15	20	8	11	14
Moldova	77	52	6	12	32	58	16	20	33	5	14	10	3		3
Kenya	17	15	31	33	22	36	10	23	24	21	14	6	6	4	10
Kyrgyzstan					1	4	16	54	78	19	1		9		9
Hong Kong		24	19	15	17	34	25	18	17	11	14	12	12	17	28
Sierra Leone	23	8	32	55	37	24	17	19	10	6	14	7	2	33	33
Dominican Repubic	8	12	14	19	18	21	19	25	18	11	7	5	5	13	9
Cameroon		4	8	7	6	6	15	14	9	7	13	23	12	7	5
Hungary	26	13	21	16	8	7	10	13	11	7	5	4	24	23	22
El Salvador	9	4	13	6	16	16	18	16	21	9	10	8	6	7	5
Bangladesh	4	8	7	7	9	10	16	7	7	12	10	10	19	14	19
Marshall Islands									6	22	19	20	16	18	29
Georgia (country)	2	16	42	127	24	14	9	4	7		2			5	2
Zambia	1	1		4	11	4	15	27	6	8	8	16	11	5	8
Honduras	9	5	5	13	8	10	3	22	11	4	9	11	10	19	20
Estonia	5	9	2	5	8	8		21	11	7	19	7	4
Iran	3	9	9	9	7	15	14	13	9	10	12	5	4	3	2
Albania	22	16	22	7	9	9	13	12	15	5	6	3	1	6	6
Azerbaijan	2	14	30	61	26	6	10	5	5				3	2
South Africa	3	14	2	27	8	10	14	7	7	5	3	3	7	17	24
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	2		3	3	2	6	4	3	4	12	9	14	6	18	12
Mongolia	3	4	6	29	23	18	13	7	9	8	1		1	2	3
Lebanon	13	15	16	6	13	7	4	7	11	10	2	4	4	2	2
Belize	7	6	6	12	14	14	9	7	6	6	5	6	1	11	7
Eritrea	2	1	3	6	7	14	10	4	9	14	2	4	4	7	6
Samoa	8	4	10	45	34	11		1	1	2	3		3	9	7
Serbia			8	7	1	7			8	4	12	7	5	7	6
Panama	12	4	5	12	6	20	15	6	4		3	1	2	4
Uzbekistan	1	1	1	2	2	4	6	9	19	5	5		2		2
Lesotho			3		1		4		1	2	13	10	5	3
Sri Lanka	5	4	4	6	13	3	9	3	2	5	4	3	1
Trinidad & Tobago	3		3	6	8		2	2	5	2	2	6	6	2	1
Laos				2	4	3	6		3	8	7	6	1
Bolivia	60	35		7	5	9	1	4
United Kingdom		6	5	5		4			3	3	2	9	5	10	8
Côte d’Ivoire		2	2	1		2			2	6	4	2	11	2	3
Dominica	4	2	1	1	2	4	3		2	1	7	1	10	5	11
Canada		2	3	1	6	1	3	4	1	3		9	5	4	5
Tanzania	1	1	3	2	4	2	11	3	9	4	2	2	1	9	4
Tonga	1	6			3	1	1	4	1	7	3	4	5	4	6
Indonesia	3	4	1	4	2	2	4	3	6	3	3	1	3	2	1
Costa Rica	17	9	4	3	10	4		1	1	1			6	10	12
Malawi	2			3		1	1	1	2	3	4	3	6	10
Swaziland	1				1			2	1	11	8	1	1
Jordan	5	2	2	8	4	4	1	1	2	2	1	5	2	4	1
Grenada	2	1		2		2	5	1	4	1	3	3	4	3	1
Saint Lucia	2	1	3	2	2	2	3		1	1	3	4	2	1
Antigua and Barbuda							1	1	4	3	1	2	5
Algeria	1	1	1	1	3		2	2	1	3	3	2	2	2
Slovakia	15	24	19		1	1		1
Zimbabwe	2			3	2	2	6		1	2	2	2
Chile	10	3	3	9	4	5	3					1
Fiji		7	4	2	3	3	1	2	1	1	2		1	1
Egypt	2	1	1	1	1	1	2	1	1	2	3	1	1	1	1
Bosnia and Herzegovina Federation	1		5	2	1	3	2	2	1	3	1	1		1
Burundi				1	3	4	1	1	2	4		1		1	1
Senegal		1	3	2	2				1	4	1	1	1		1
Saint Kitts and Nevis		1	1			3					2	4	1
Mozambique			3	2	3		1		1	1	1		3	3
Malaysia	1			2	1	1	1	3	1	1			3	2	1
Madagascar		2	5	3	4	2	1	2				1	1
Gambia										8		1	1	2	2
Montenegro			8	7	1	7					1
Somalia			3	4	2							5			1
Turkey	9	4	2	2	4				1	1			1
Germany	2	1		1	2	3	2	1	3	1
Sudan	1			6		5	4					1		1	4
Suriname						1	1	4	2			2		1	1
Guinea-Bissau									2		2	2	1	5	2
Afghanistan										5			2	2	3
Guinea							1	3	3		1		1	1	4
Burkina Faso		1					1	1	2	2		2		3	6
Mali							6	1			3
Portugal	1	2	3	2	4		3	2
Greece	4		2	2	2	2		1		2				1	1
Paraguay	1	1	1	1								4
Tunesia			1			2	4			1			1		2
Niger		1						1	1		1		2	2	1
Czech Republic	1		2	3	2	1	2	1	1						1
Bhutan								2	2		1		1
Venezuela	2	4		2					2				1		1
Togo					1		1		1		3			1	3
Kosovo											3		1		1
Papua New Guinea	1		1									2	1
Macedonia	4	2	4		1		1			1					4
Singapore					1		1			1	1	1		1
Benin					1			1		2		1		1
France		2				1		1		1			1
Croatia		2	3	2	1	1					1
Unknown										4
The Bahamas											1	2			3
Cape Verde	1	1			1	1			1			1
Barbados		1	1	1	1					1	1
Ireland					3			1				1
Burma		2		2	2	1	1
Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea (North Korea)										3
Iceland	3						1						1
Tajikistan												2
Djibouti					2								1
Argentina										1		1
Belgium				1		1						1			1
Palestine Authority										2
New Zealand		2	2	2
Kosovo													1
Oman													1
Timor-Leste													1
Republic of The Congo (Brazzaville)													1	4
Vanuatu						1				1				1
Seychelles				1	1		1
Netherlands					2	1									1
Israel												1
Namibia												1		1	1
Equatorial Guinea		1								1
Norway	1	1						1
St. Barthelemy											1
Central African Republic					1	1
Federated States of Micronesia				1		1
Uruguay									1
Syria								1						1	5
Austria			2
Kiribati						1
Spain					1
Australia				1
Switzerland			1
Cyprus	1
Mauritius	1
Botswana															2
Italy															2
Solomon Islands															1
South Sudan														2
Yemen															1
Total	18829	19632	20891	21647	22972	22725	20636	19570	17464	12756	12149	9320	8668	7094	6441

Source:

U.S. Department of State (Bureau of Consular Affairs)

Due to mistakes in the reporting of the Department of State, the data provided for FY 2002 contains figures as currently provided by the Department of State and figures provided by the Department of State in 2007. The older figures are used for: China, Russia, Philippines and Vietnam, the most recent figures are used for all other countries. As a result the adoption figures for 2002 can not be taken as reliable and are at least 400 adoptions lower than the total number reported by the State Department.

Adoption exports

Country from	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014
Canada	78	65	53	74	81	102	96	94	167	204	128	192	152	126	123
Netherlands	8	12	18	31	18	32	38	39	56	34	34	43	48	27	28
Germany	15	24	19	20	14	11	12	9	11	4	13	5	10	6
Switzerland	13	10	9	14	9			24	17	14	4	7	10	4
United Kingdom	15	22	19	17	13	18	14	23	19
Ireland				1		2	2	5	4	4	7	7	19	7
Sweden	5	2	2	5	3	4	10	2	7	5
Iceland												2
Finland	2	1		2		1
Austria										2
Belgium													1	2	4
France					1					1
Denmark					1		1
Italy									1
Slovenia							1
New Zealand															3
Total	136	136	120	164	140	170	174	196	282	268	186	256	240	172	158

This information is compiled from the figures as reported by the receiving countries.

Reports:

Reports

Document	Date
International Adoption: Two Way Street	2010-11-01
Baby dearth snags adoption	2010-04-12
Child: U.S. Adoption Agency Bought Me	2010-02-15
US DOS: Vietnam Adoption Notice	2009-05-01
US Adoption Agencies Licensed in Vietnam with province 2008	2008-09-01
US Embassy Meeting on Intercountry Adoption	2008-04-29
US Adoption Agencies licensed in Vietnam with province (2007)	2007-06-11
Interpol search for Romanian children adopted abroad	2006-09-29
US Adoption Agencies Licensed in Vietnam with province (2006)	2006-09-23
Colin Powell meeting Nastase	2001-10-01
All I ever did was arrange adoptions for mothers who would otherwise	1995-04-04
ROMANIAN BABY TRAFFIC BORN OF POVERTY	1994-09-05
Babies for Export	1994-08-22
CONDITION OF ORPHANS, ROMANIAN TRADE STATUS SHOULD BE LINKED	1993-04-02
Romanian Boy Comes Home To Calistoga	1991-08-20
The Romanian Baby Bazaar	1991-03-24
Sojourn fulfills couples' dreams of parenthood	1991-01-20
Do-it-yourself foreign adoption: agony, ecstasy	1987-10-18
Alberta gave approval to 75 p.c. of baby adoption applications	1948-05-11