Regulation 21. Adoption by Overseas Citizen of India Cardholder or foreign national of Hague Adoption Convention ratified countries living in India

An Overseas Citizen of India Cardholder or foreign national, who is a citizen of a country that has ratified the Hague Adoption Convention and is a habitual resident of India, shall apply for adoption online in prescribed format as provided in the Schedule VI along with the required documents specified therein including No Objection Certificate from their Embassy or High Commission for adoption by uploading on the Designated Portal.
On receipt of the application, along with the required documents duly notarised, except those documents originating from India which may be self-attested, the Authority shall refer the case to a Specialised Adoption Agency or District Child Protection Unit for preparing the Home Study Report in the format provided in the Schedule VII and the Specialised Adoption Agency shall upload the Home Study Report on the Designated Portal.
The prospective adoptive parents shall reserve one of the referred children within forty-eight hours and the procedures shall be followed as per the provisions of sub-regulations (9), (10), (12) and (13) of regulation 16 and regulations 17 to 19 as applicable. Please check regulation from CARA website.
The preparation of Home Study Report and uploading of progress report as required under these regulations shall be done by the Specialised Adoption Agency or District Child Protection Unit concerned.
The Specialised Adoption Agency shall report the progress of the child on six monthly basis for a period of two years from the date of pre-adoption foster care by uploading the details on the Designated Portal in the format as provided in the Schedule XII along with photographs of the child:
Provided that the first post-adoption follow-up report shall be completed within the three months of the pre-adoption foster care.
During the follow-up, if the Specialised Adoption Agency finds that the adoptee is unable to adjust in the adoptive family or the continuance of the adoptee in the adoptive family is not in the best interest of the child, counselling shall be arranged for the adoptive parents and the adoptee and further, the procedure as provided in sub-regulations (4), (5) and (6) of regulation 14 shall be followed.
The diplomatic mission concerned shall also ensure that the adopted child acquires citizenship of the country of their parents immediately after adoption decree and a copy of the passport of the child from the country of the nationality of the prospective adoptive parents shall be forwarded to the Authority and the Specialised Adoption Agency concerned.
An Overseas Citizen of India Cardholder or foreign prospective adoptive parents living in India, are required to give an affidavit to the effect that they shall allow personal visits of theS representative by the Specialised Adoption Agency or District Child Protection Unit or State Adoption Resource Agency, as the case may be, for a period of at least two years from the date of adoption.
An Overseas Citizen of India Cardholder or foreign prospective adoptive parents living in India, as the case may be, shall give an undertaking to the effect that if they move out of India before completion of two years after adoption, they shall inform to the Authority about their movement, furnish their new address, and continue to send their post-adoption progress report to the Authority for the remaining period.
On receiving information for change of location of the adoptive parents to a different country, the adoptive parents shall be assigned a foreign adoption agency, Central Authority through which remaining post-adoption follow-up shall be sent under intimation to the Indian Mission concerned so that in case of any difficulty, disruption or dissolution, the Mission can provide necessary assistance.