News Update: The Adoption law with amendments will be voted on in December. The law and amendments have been published on Guatemala's Congressional website http://www.congreso.gob.gt/ . Bloggers over at Guatadopt have been translating and discussing it. This is what Kevin of Guatadopt had to say:
The provision to be in process reads to me as being very liberal. Registering looks to be little more than filling out a form or providing some other legal document to show that the case has been started. There is nothing attaching it to being at the current PGN phase. If anything, it seems to me to a safeguard for those not yet in PGN. It sounds to me just that the Central Authority, Bienestar, wants documentation so that they can have a database of who is grandfathered. The 30 day thing is fair to me otherwise it could lead to abuse of the effective date.
Should the law pass as it is written, it would take effect December 31 per the current version. That deadline date could change with the final reading and vote by Congress. As it stands now, those already in process will proceed under the current system and need only to register so that Guatemala authorities can keep track of those grand fathered cases. We wait with anticipation for the final draft and what the Lord has planned for adoptions in Guatemala.
Should the law pass as it is written, it would take effect December 31 per the current version. That deadline date could change with the final reading and vote by Congress. As it stands now, those already in process will proceed under the current system and need only to register so that Guatemala authorities can keep track of those grand fathered cases. We wait with anticipation for the final draft and what the Lord has planned for adoptions in Guatemala.
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