US not adopting from Vietnam

The United States has said it will not resume adoptions from Vietnam as the country “does not yet have a fully Hague-compliant process in place”.

The announcement was made on Wednesday, the day the Hague Convention came into force in the South-East Asian country, and weeks after Children’s Minister Frances Fitzgerald said she was satisfied for Ireland to resume adopting from the country again.

Under the Adoption Act 2010, Ireland can only adopt from countries which have ratified the Convention or with which we have a bilateral agreement.