Adoptions in Guatemala

UPDATE:  Registration of Pending Adoption Cases

Announcement by Guatemala’s National Council for Adoptions (CNA)

February 8, 2008

On February 8, 2008, Guatemala’s National Council for Adoptions (CNA) announced that adoption cases "entered" in Guatemala before Dec. 31, 2007 must be registered in the offices of the CNA, which are temporarily installed in the Secretary of Social Welfare (Secretaria de Bienestar Social or SBS) of the Presidency, located at 32 Calle 9-34, Zona 11, Colonia Las Charcas, by Tuesday, Feb. 12 (inclusive). The office will be open during the weekend from 9:00 am to 4:00 pm.

The Government of Guatemala advises that those notaries who presented their cases to the members of the earlier National Council for Adoptions should bring their copy (of that registration) to the office in the SBS during the above mentioned hours, so that a registration number can be assigned.

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For more information on intercountry adoptions and the Hague Adoption Convention, please visit the Intercountry Adoption page of the Department of State website:

http://www.travel.state.gov/family/adoption/adoption_485.html