Intercountry Adoption Programs from Bulgaria Reopen.

July 8, 2008. Intercountry Adoption Programs from Bulgaria Reopen.

U.S. adoption agencies are announcing the reopening of intercountry adoption programs from Bulgaria. In FY 2003 198 Bulgarian children were adopted into the U.S. The following year the number had dropped to 110 while by FY 2005 the number declined drastically to 29; in the last fiscal year only 20 children were adopted from Bulgaria. The politics of the European Union, in particular the anti-ICA obsession of Lady Emma Nicholson largely explains this decline. The unparented children of Bulgaria still suffer brutalized lives as Bulgarian institutions are among the worst in the world. Unfortunately, as the State Department points out in its recent circular, as a result of the EU driven structure of Bulgaria's adoption laws, "there are very few children on the waiting list, which means that the adoptive parents may wait many months and even years until the Ministry of Justice offers them a Bulgarian orphan for adoption." For this reason we urge prospective adoptive parents to be very cautious before committing to a Bulgarian ICA program. More Information.