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Use form SC6 if you're an employee, are adopting a child from abroad and need to claim Statutory Adoption Pay (SAP) and Leave.
Forms relating to adoption, including those to request adoption, placement and parental orders.
Adoption contact register form - part 2
How adoption agencies should handle applications from people wishing to adopt a child from another country.
Legal rights, birth certificates, parental rights and child maintenance
Fostering or adopting a child, including from abroad, and being a surrogate mother
Action to take when paying Adoption Pay in certain circumstances, including employee becomes sick, leaves, dies, is awarded a pay rise, or the child dies.
The government's strategy to deliver excellence in adoption services across England.
Form A107: Consent by the child's parent to adoption by their partner. The Adoption and Children Act 2002.
Form A102: Consent to the placement of my child for adoption with identified prospective adopter(s) and, if the placement breaks down, with any prospective adopter(s) chosen by the adoption agency. Section 19 of the Adoption and Children Act 2002
The adoption routes are for a child under the age of 18 to apply to come to the UK either to be adopted or having been adopted overseas.
Immigration staff guidance on nationality applications and claims to British citizenship based on adoption.
Use this guidance to find out how your child can become a British citizen if you adopt in the UK from abroad.
Use the online form (previously form SC4) if you’re adopting a child and need to apply for Statutory Paternity Pay and Leave.
Use this form if you were adopted by a person through an overseas adoption, and you want to apply to the High Court or a family court for a declaration that you are or are not the adopted child of...
Intercountry adoption and the 1993 Hague Convention. (A21)
Research about the effects on families receiving support through the adoption support fund.
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