Adoption Flow

• Pre-IBESR - Dossier is prepared to enter into  Haitian Social Services (all papers present, notarized, etc.)
• IBESR - Haitian Social Services / Adoption Authority reviews contents of dossier and verifies status of orphan
• Parquet - "Pre-Courts;" includes birth parent interviews; pre-screening for court process to occur 
• Courts - adoption decree is created and process finalized; legally, child is yours :)
• Attestation - official court documents (particularly the Act of Adoption) is sent to the National Archives where they declare the signature on the Act of Adoption is legal
• "Families receive word of their decree in two ways. Some right after parquet and before the 4 steps in legal = that family would "wait" about 2 months before they went into MOI. Other families are not told about their decree until after all the legal is done = so for them, the wait is only a week or two before its dropped off to MOI"
• Legal / Legalization - Court documents are sent to the Ministry of Justice where more signatures are verified 
• MAE - Ministry of Foreign Affairs legalizes the signature of the person in the Ministry of Justice who verified signatures on paperwork in the step above(!)
• MOI - adoption paperwork goes to Ministry of the Interior to process request for passport 
• Printing - dossier sits in Immigration while passport is processed and printed (Haitian passport w/ adoptive child's new name)
• Visa - dossier is sent to requesting country's embassy for visa processing and approval