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Are all Foreign Adoption orders automatically recognised in this Country?
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Not all foreign adoption orders are automatically recognised in this country. Only the following adoption orders are automatically recognised in this country.
- Adoption orders made in Scotland Northern Ireland Isle of Man and the Channel Islands.
- Convention adoptions. An adoption order made by a country that is a contracting state to the Convention of 29 May 1993 on protection of children and co-operation in respect of inter country adoption (the 1993 Hague Adoption Convention) and certified by the relevant authority as having been made in accordance with the said Convention.
- An overseas adoption. An adoption order made before 3 January 2014 in a country listed in the Adoption (Designation of Overseas Adoptions) Order 1973 and on or after 3 January 2014 in a country listed in the Adoption (Recognition of Overseas Adoptions) Order 2013.
Whilst these three routes ensure that adoption orders made in many countries are automatically recognised in this country there are a number of countries whose adoption orders are not automatically recognised including Singapore Bermuda Gibraltar Malaysia and Cyprus.
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