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 30th September 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 |
4
0 |
2
0 |
1
0 |
0
0 |
1
0 |
0
1 |
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| Waiting List | 17 | 3 | 2 | C | 2 | 1 |
The Irish Waiting List Number are those Irish families who are waiting to be matched as part of a global pool of applicants. There are many factors which impact the waiting list and placement numbers, and many can occur in the same month.
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- New dossiers received will add to this number and
- Applicants who withdrawn from the process reduce this number.
- Applicants matched with children will be removed from this number.
- There may be applicants where either the AAI or the applicants have yet to make a decision on a referral and that number is not yet recorded here as a referral but the applicants no longer appear as waiting. Should a proposed referral not proceed then the applicant in question will return to the waiting list.
- At any given time there may be other applicants, on any of the programmes listed, who have accepted an approved referral and are pending placement and that number is now recorded here as Referral Pending Placement.