Italy 107
USA 65
France 31
Germany 24
Sweden 17
Netherlands 13
Spain 9
Norway 6
Greece 4
Canada 4
Cyprus 3
Switzerland 2
Luxembourg 1
Malta 1
The document also includes a column that I can't quite interpret with certainty. However, I think it shows the number of adoptions that have received the final MOJ approval, but the children have not yet been picked up by their parents. Those numbers are:
Italy 18
USA 45
France 7
Germany 5
Sweden 14
Canada 2
If I remember correctly, in 2010, there were 40 adoptions from Bulgaria to the US, so we are once again seeing an increase in children coming home.
For anyone wishing to review the original document, here's the link:
wow, what a difference the Hague treaty makes, it slowed adoptions for a bit, but now that the agencies know the drill- things are really picking back up!
ReplyDeleteIt would be interesting to me to see how many of these adoptions, especially for the US, were of identified waiting children and how many of children referred blind through the main procedure. I think we would find that the large majority of those 65 kids were waiting children.
ReplyDeleteViviane, you have done a great job!
ReplyDeleteI would like just to be helpful and add a little bit more understanding:
The public statistics show in fact the number of the signed consents given by the Minister of Justice, it means the dossiers that have received their signitures, but haven't still passed through Court, received the new birth certificate and Bulgarian passport. Therefore if we have any kind of statistics for the number of issued Bulgarian passports for intercountry adopted children, it will be different. In brief, these are not the numbers of the children that have been adopted by foreign AP and have left Bulgaria, but rather part of the one that have left Bulgaria in 2011 and the one that will be shortly leaving.
The second column shows the number of SN procedures. If I do remember correctly, it is included as number in the one of the first column or namely about US:
There have been 65 given consents by the Minister of Justice, including 45 for SN kids.
As I think you already know, the number 65 indicates the number of the referrals/adoptive families and not the number of adopted kids, as sometimes under 1 referral/dossier we could have even 2 or more kids. It is the same for the SN procedures.
Moreover, you could see as well the share that US has taken in 2011, namely 23% /for 65 cases/, Italy - the first one is 38% /for 107 cases/.
All the best, Lucy