American Adoption Professionals Abroad (AAPA) serves Americans living abroad with adoption home studies, post placement supervision, education, and immigration consultation. We are a non-profit, professional Association of adoption social workers and consultants living and working abroad. All of our international adoption homestudies are processed through a partnered US licensed adoption placement agency.

Scope of Services
With the recent implementation of The Hague Convention on International Adoption on 1 April 2008 and new US regulations on international adoptions, we are limiting our services for US citizens living abroad. We will continue to work with US federal employees, US military and other US citizens temporarily living abroad who are not residents of the country in which they live who are adopting either in the USA or a non-Hague Convention country. US citizens living abroad and adopting in the USA are considered a US domestic adoption. Authorization of the home study provider is required for any US citizen adopting from and living in a Hague Convention country. There is no mechanism at the present time to receive such authorization. We will continue to research and work on this but for the present time we need to suspend any involvement on Hague Convention adoptions for any families who we are not presently working with that have not formalized their application to USCIS prior to 1 April. As home study providers, AAPA is unique in our considerable knowledge and experience with immigration. Over the years we have saved our clients considerable time, money, and frustration.

Feel free to contact us with any questions or concerns about our services.