IAA Advocacy Page

Separately we each have a story to tell, together we can make our voices heard. We are a national adoption support and advocacy organization. We seek to join the domestic and international adoption communities to create an effective voice for adoptive families. We combine members who are birth parents, adult adoptees, adoptive parents, and many others. We are your grass roots organization. Join us today and help us advocate for you!

We also invite organizations that advocate for specific country programs to join IAA, while still retaining your separate groups. This will allow greater advocacy. E-mail us today or join our organization as an advocacy member.

Support The Intercountry Adoption Reform Act:

House bill: HR3896 and Senate bill: S1934

Read the sad story of Jaoa Herbert... This did NOT have to happen. Please stop this from happening again!

The U.S. State Department has redrafted the Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) and has sent it to the Vietnam government. This new draft specifically addresses some of the previous concerns and it is hoped that it will be well received. Check back for further updates as they are available. For background info: Adoption agreement needed: Vietnam and the United States, ..More..

Sign our petition to streamline the process for issuing proof of citizenship for international adoptees.----UPDATE

Adoptions into the U.S. from Country of origin	2002	2001	2000	1999	1998	1997
China	5053	4,681	5,053	4,101	4,206	3,597
Russia	4939	4,279	4,269	4,348	4,491	3,816
S. Korea	1779	1,770	1,794	2,008	1,829	1,654
Guatemala	2219	1,609	1,518	1,002	911	788
Ukraine	1106	1,246	659	321	180	--
Romania	168	782	1,122	895	406	621
Vietnam	766	737	724	709	603	425
Kazakhstan	819	672	399	113	--	--
India	466	543	503	499	478	349
Cambodia	254	407	402	249	249	66
Bulgaria	260	297	214	221	151	148
Colombia	334	266	246	231	351	233
Philippines	221	219	173	195	200	163
Haiti	187	192	131	96	121	144
Ethiopia	105	158	95	103	96	82
Poland	101	86	83	97	77	78
Thailand	67	74	88	77	84	--
Mexico	61	73	106	137	168	152
Jamaica		51	--	--	--	--
Liberia		51	--	--	--	--
Top Twenty Total		18,193	17,579	15,365	14,817	12,585
World Totals (including top 20)	20,009	19,137	18,537	16,396	15,774	13,620

The woman gently touched Joao Herbert's forearm as he stepped off the crowded sidewalk and into an appliance store. "Aren't you the boy who just arrived here from America_" asked Maria Leonar Vieira de Moraes, 60. Herbert smiled and nodded yes. "Welcome to your home," she said. Then she reached up and hugged him. Hers was an oft-expressed sentiment during Herbert's first week here. But it masked the brutal, if sometimes poignant, complexities of the 22-year-old's arrival ......... Read ENTIRE STORY