Sentence examples for cleared for adoption from inspiring English sources

Narey said assessment reports under the present system could run to 140 pages, while there were about 1,000 children currently cleared for adoption with no adopters available.

"It meanders along, it is failing to keep pace with the number of children cleared for adoption, and it drives many outstanding couples to adopt from abroad.

Then, in early December, the children were all cleared for adoption.

But the number of parents cleared for adoption is probably less than a third of that figure.

In addition, once the treaty is fully put in place in April, parents seeking a visa for an overseas adoption must demonstrate to the State Department that a child has been properly cleared for adoption, that a local placement had been considered, and that the birth parents were counseled on their decision and have signed consent forms.

By the time Sambalilo was cleared for adoption, she had just turned 15.

In Washington, R. Nicholas Burns, under secretary of state for political affairs, said the way had been cleared for the adoption of the resolution on Saturday.

Children were spending years in care, some bouncing from placement to placement and others waiting in willing homes that could not get the paperwork completed and cleared for an adoption.

The agency that cleared us for adoption did a criminal background check that included our driving records and every one of our addresses for the last 18 years.

Alita C. De Ocampo, a social worker in charge of the Department of Social Welfare's Adoption Resource and Referral Section for Metropolitan Manila, said in a phone interview that she is one of two social workers in the area – a city of nearly 12 million people -- who can clear children for adoption.

Mr. Tweedie, the former chairman of the international board, said he feared that if the United States did not set a clear timetable for adoption of the standards, and make clear that exceptions to the standards would be rare, other countries, particularly in Asia, either would not adopt the standards or would allow substantial variations.