Status of adoptions
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Status of adoptions

HHAMA is working with 5 active intercountry adoption programmes, Vietnam, India, USA,  Thailand and The Philippines.

2025 NOTE : when reporting completions for all countries HHAMA is now reporting Placements.  The placements can occur some time before legal completion eg. Thailand and the US and the most appropriate way to record children placed in an appropriate time frame is to report actual placements, children placed with adoptive parents, not legal completions.  From 2025 the line will be PLACEMENTS.

2026 NOTE : From 2026 we are including details of any referrals accepted where placement has not yet happened.

Status of Adoptions as at 28th February 2026

C indicates Programme currently Closed.

 

Country Vietnam USA India Haiti Thailand Philippines
Complete 2022 13 2 1 1 3
Complete 2023 10 3 1 0 5
Complete 2024 8 1 0 0 6
Placements 2025 6 4 0 0 4
PLACEMENTS 2026

Referral Pending Placement

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Waiting List 24 4 1 C 1 2
  • The Irish Waiting List Number are those Irish families who are waiting to be matched as part of a global pool of applicants. New dossiers received will add to this number and applicants matched with children will be removed from this number.
  • At any given time there may be other applicants, on any of the programmes listed, who are matched pending  placement and that number is now recorded here.  There may indeed be applicants where either the AAI or the applicants have yet to make a decision and that number is not recorded here.  Should a proposed match not proceed then the applicant will return to the waiting list and the Referral pending placement number will be reduced.