U.S. Congress - H.R.1464 North Korean Refugee Adoption Act of 2011
H.R.1464 - North Korean Refugee Adoption Act of 2011
An act to express the sense of Congress regarding North Korean children and children of one North Korean parent and to require the Department of State regularly to brief appropriate congressional committees on efforts to advocate for and develop a strategy to provide assistance in the best interest of these children. view all titles (4)
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- Official: An act to express the sense of Congress regarding North Korean children and children of one North Korean parent and to require the Department of State regularly to brief appropriate congressional committees on efforts to advocate for and develop a strategy to provide assistance in the best interest of these children. as amended by senate.
- Short: North Korean Refugee Adoption Act of 2011 as passed house.
- Official: To develop a strategy for assisting stateless children from North Korea, and for other purposes. as introduced.
- Short: North Korean Refugee Adoption Act of 2011 as introduced.
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Official Summary
9/11/2012--Passed House without amendment. (This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary has been expanded because action occurred on the measure.) North Korean Refugee Adoption Act of 2012 - Directs the Secretary of State to develop a comprehensive strategy for fOfficial Summary
9/11/2012--Passed House without amendment. (This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary has been expanded because action occurred on the measure.) North Korean Refugee Adoption Act of 2012 - Directs the Secretary of State to develop a comprehensive strategy for facilitating the adoption of North Korean children by U.S. citizens. Directs the Secretary to: -consider the challenges that U.S. citizens would encounter in adopting children from North Korea who are living in Hague countries and non-Hague countries regardless of their legal status; -propose solutions to dealing with the situation in which a North Korean refugee child does not have access to a competent authority in the foreign-sending country; -propose solutions to dealing with North Korean refugee children who are not considered habitual residents of the countries in which they are located; -evaluate alternative mechanisms for foreign-sending countries to prove that North Korean refugee children are orphans when documentation is missing or destroyed; -provide suggestions for working with South Korea to establish programs that identify, provide for the immediate care of, assist in the family reunification of, and assist in the international adoption of orphaned North Korean children in South Korea; -provide suggestions for working with international adoption agencies and aid organizations in Asia to establish programs for the identification, immediate care, family reunification, and international adoption of North Korean orphans living outside North Korea; - identify other nations in which large numbers of stateless, orphaned children are living who might be helped by international adoption; and -propose solutions for assisting orphaned children with Chinese fathers and North Korean mothers who are living in China and have no access to Chinese or North Korean resources. Requires a related report to Congress....Read the Rest
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