Adoption
Current Hague Convention Participating States:
On 1 March, the following countries had brought the Hague Convention
into force:
- Albania
- Andorra
- Australia
- Austria
- Belarus
- Bolivia
- Brazil
- Bulgaria
- Burkina Faso
- Burundi
- Canada
- Chile
- Colombia
- Costa Rica
- Cyprus
- Czech Republic
- Denmark
- Ecuador
- El Salvador
- Estonia
- Finland
- France
- Georgia
- Germany
- Guatemala (However, the U.K. objected to Guatemala’s Convention status and intercountry adoption will be conducted with Guatemala as a non-designated country).
- Iceland
- India
- Israel
- Italy
- Latvia
- Lithuania
- Luxembourg
- Mauritius
- Mexico
- Moldova
- Monaco
- Mongolia
- Netherlands
- New Zealand
- Norway
- Panama
- Paraguay
- Peru
- Philippines
- Poland
- Romania
- Slovakia
- Slovenia
- South Africa
- Spain
- Sri Lanka
- Sweden
- Switzerland
- United Kingdom
- Venezuela
