Procedure to be followed by persons seeking adoption in Costa Rica :
The adoption process for children and adolescents carried out by persons seeking domestic adoption through PANI has three stages:
1) Stage Management of determining the suitability of the applicants .
This step consists in determining the suitability psychological, social and legal persons seeking placement for adoption of a child or teen for adoption.
1.a) Conditions to be met by persons seeking :
for the adoption, applicants for adoption must meet the conditions established by the Family Code, namely:
1. Possess full capacity to exercise their civil rights.
2. Being twenty-five years in case of individual adoptions. In joint adoptions, it is sufficient that one of the adopters have reached this age.
3. Be at least fifteen years older than the adoptee. In the joint adoption, the difference will be established with respect to the adoptive younger.
4. Be of good character and reputation.
5. Own family conditions, moral, psychological, social, economic and health that demonstrate ability and willingness to assume parental responsibility.
6. As a general rule have prevented to take people over 60 years. (However exceptionally if the competent judicial authority must authorize the adoption by individuals over that age)
1.b) Documents to be presented people adoption applicants to determine suitability:
The verification of all conditions listed previously done through a series of documents, required to be provided by persons seeking adoption with the PANI, to determine their suitability for such purposes. These documents are:
1. National Adoption official form of PANI (complete and duly signed)
2. Two passport size photographs of both applicants.
3. Birth certificate or the promoters (issued by the Civil Registry).
4. Marriage certificate or civil status (issued by the Civil Registry).
5. Crime certificate (issued by the Registrar of Crime of the Judiciary).
6. Income certificate (issued by a practitioner or by the responsible official of the Department of Human Resources of the company or institution for which they work).
7. Medical report issued by a health professional or private CCSS. (The physician must fill out the form guide opinion of PANI)
8. Social assessment. (See section psychosocial evaluation parameters)
9. Psychological assessment. (See section on psychosocial evaluation parameters)
10. Copy IDs.
11. Certified copy of your certificate of residence (if different from people of Costa Rican nationality, habitually resident in the country).
As the requirements number 3, 4 and 5 set forth above, persons other than the Costa Rican nationality, habitually resident in the country must provide the following:
Requirement 3: Birth certificate issued by State authority having jurisdiction the country concerned. This document must be translated by an official translator at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to bring English and consular legalization for overtones.
Requirement 4: Certification of marital status issued by the State authority having jurisdiction in the country concerned. This document must be translated by an official translator at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to bring English and consular legalization for overtones.
Requirement 5: Certification of good conduct or delinquency issued by the FBI (if your country of origin is the United States of America) or by the judicial authority national or federal authority in the country of origin. This document must be translated by an official translator at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to bring English and consular legalization for overtones.
The documentation submitted by the applicant families is confidential and proprietary use of the institution.
PANI does not recommend any family to make arrangements for international adoption of children by direct delivery calls in Costa Rica. Such adoptions are those - mostly infants, in which the birth parents consent to the child directly to a family court, their willingness to supply your son or daughter to be adopted by a foreign family. In most cases, these adoptions are through intermediaries, with the risk of disproportionate fee structure for services to adoptive families. Such adoptions are not endorsed by PANI, because in most cases, they violate the rights of children to remain with their biological family or, failing that, to grow and develop a national adoptive family ( principle of subsidiarity), being that they lie outside the conditions and procedures established by the Hague Convention.
more information, complete stages of adoption in Costa Rica, well explained and detailed can be found at:
National Adoption: International adoption
http://www.pani.go.cr/descargar/nacional.pdf: http: / / www.pani.go.cr / download / internacional.pdf
You may also contact the Office of the National Adoption of Children in Costa Rica by phone 00 506 2523-0794 or fax 00 506 2523 -0895 or by email adopciones@pani.go.cr
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