Tuesday, February 13, 2018

International Adoptions from Bulgaria in 2017

The Bulgarian Ministry of Justice has released the 2017 statistics for inter-country adoptions.  

As in the past, more than 1/3 of all adoptions were for identified waiting children with special needs.  The remaining procedures were direct matches made by MOJ between a registered family and a child cleared for international adoption but not yet entered into the Waiting Child Register.  Many of these main procedure referrals likely also had identified special needs.  The overall number of completed adoptions from Bulgaria decreased in 2017.

USA – 104 total procedures, including 78 for identified waiting children

Italy - 36 total procedures, including 1 for identified waiting children

Spain - 22 total procedures, including 1 for identified waiting children

France - 21 total procedures

Netherlands - 13 total procedures

Canada - 7 total procedures, including 2 for identified waiting children

Ireland – 6 total procedures

Germany – 4 total procedures

Denmark – 4 total procedures

Norway – 4 total procedures

Belgium - 3 total procedures, including 2 for identified waiting children

Luxembourg – 1 procedure

Cyprus - 1 procedure


TOTAL -  226 total procedures for 306 children, including 84 procedures for 133 identified waiting children

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