Since there is no law to support the legality of the form that requires personal and confidential information of all the interested parties in the adoption, as well as the verification of the same by the Central Authority, it is doubtful that the registration of the adoptions with the weekly changing form, is legal.
The Central Authority does not have money to work, because the ten million quetzals that are needed to start working, will not be released until the conflict of the appointments of the members of the board of directors is settled.
The PGN is rejecting as many cases as possible, and refuses to accept any cases, even those that were previously rejected and need to be resubmitted, until proof of registration with the Central Authority is included.
ALL CASES IN PROCESS, regardless of their status, even those that are already finished and only pending recording at the Civil Registry, must be registered with the Central Authority before February 12, 2008 in order to be grandfathered. If the case is not registered with the CA, the PGN will not approve it. The fact that the CA is refusing to register the cases, because to offer to give the proof of registration later and not doing it, is the same as not registering it.
Right now, not a single adoption case has been registered by the Central Authority.Time is passing by and if by February 12th. that situation has not been solved, the situation of all the adoptions in process will be at the mercy of the Central Authority, because they will have total control of the processes. The adoption lawyers will have to keep supporting the children, but whether the children would go to the people who have been waiting for them is still unclear.
ADA is poised to file an amparo to get a ruling stating that the CA must proceed without delay to register the in process cases and to stop asking for information that is simply none of their business.
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New pictures: Top McCaule 6 months, Bottom McKelle 8 months
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