International Adoptions Completed from Bulgaria in 2017

*The Bulgarian Ministry of Justice has released the 2017 statistics for intercountry adoptions. As in the past, more than 1/3 of all adoptions were for identified waiting children with special needs. The remaining procedures were direct matches made by MOJ between a registered family and a child cleared for international adoption but not yet entered into the Waiting Child Register. Many of these main procedure referrals likely also had identified special needs. The overall number of completed adoptions from Bulgaria decreased in 2017.*

• USA – 104 total procedures, including 78 for identified waiting children
• Italy – 36 total procedures, including 1 for identified waiting children
• Spain – 22 total procedures, including 1 for identified waiting children
• France – 21 total procedures
• Netherlands – 13 total procedures
• Canada – 7 total procedures, including 2 for identified waiting children
• Ireland – 6 total procedures
• Germany – 4 total procedures
• Denmark – 4 total procedures
• Norway – 4 total procedures
• Belgium – 3 total procedures, including 2 for identified waiting children
• Luxembourg – 1 procedure
• Cyprus – 1 procedure

TOTAL – 226 total procedures for 306 children, including 84 procedures for 133 identified waiting children