    [United States Statutes at Large, Volume 124, 111th Congress, 2nd Session]
    [From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

    Public Law 111-287
    111th Congress

    An Act

    To restore immunization and sibling age exemptions for children adopted
    by United States citizens under the Hague Convention on Intercountry
    Adoption to allow their admission into the United States. <>

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the
    United States of America in Congress assembled, <>
    SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as ``International Adoption Simplification
    Act''.
    SEC. 2. EXEMPTION FROM VACCINATION DOCUMENTATION REQUIREMENT.

    Section 212(a)(1)(C)(ii) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8
    U.S.C. 1182(a)(1)(C)(ii)) is amended by striking ``section
    101(b)(1)(F),'' and inserting ``subparagraph (F) or (G) of section
    101(b)(1);''.
    SEC. 3. SIBLING ADOPTIONS.

    Section 101(b)(1)(G) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8
    U.S.C. 1101(b)(1)(G)) is amended to read as follows:
    ``(G)(i) a child, younger than 16 years of age at
    the time a petition is filed on the child's behalf to
    accord a classification as an immediate relative under
    section 201(b), who has been adopted in a foreign state
    that is a party to the Convention on Protection of
    Children and Co-operation in Respect of Intercountry
    Adoption, done at The Hague on May 29, 1993, or who is
    emigrating from such a foreign state to be adopted in
    the United States by a United States citizen and spouse
    jointly or by an unmarried United States citizen who is
    at least 25 years of age, Provided, That--
    ``(I) the Secretary of Homeland Security is
    satisfied that proper care will be furnished the
    child if admitted to the United States;
    ``(II) the child's natural parents (or parent,
    in the case of a child who has one sole or
    surviving parent because of the death or
    disappearance of, abandonment or desertion by, the
    other parent), or other persons or institutions
    that retain legal custody of the child, have
    freely given their written irrevocable consent to
    the termination of their legal relationship with
    the child, and to the child's emigration and
    adoption;

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    ``(III) in the case of a child having two
    living natural parents, the natural parents are
    incapable of providing proper care for the child;
    ``(IV) the Secretary of Homeland Security is
    satisfied that the purpose of the adoption is to
    form a bona fide parent-child relationship, and
    the parent-child relationship of the child and the
    natural parents has been terminated (and in
    carrying out both obligations under this subclause
    the Secretary of Homeland Security may consider
    whether there is a petition pending to confer
    immigrant status on one or both of such natural
    parents); and
    ``(V) in the case of a child who has not been
    adopted--
    ``(aa) the competent authority of
    the foreign state has approved the
    child's emigration to the United States
    for the purpose of adoption by the
    prospective adoptive parent or parents;
    and
    ``(bb) the prospective adoptive
    parent or parents has or have complied
    with any pre-adoption requirements of
    the child's proposed residence; and
    ``(ii) except that no natural parent or prior
    adoptive parent of any such child shall thereafter, by
    virtue of such parentage, be accorded any right,
    privilege, or status under this chapter; or
    ``(iii) subject to the same provisos as in clauses
    (i) and (ii), a child who--
    ``(I) is a natural sibling of a child
    described in clause (i), subparagraph (E)(i), or
    subparagraph (F)(i);
    ``(II) was adopted abroad, or is coming to the
    United States for adoption, by the adoptive parent
    (or prospective adoptive parent) or parents of the
    sibling described in clause (i), subparagraph
    (E)(i), or subparagraph (F)(i); and
    ``(III) is otherwise described in clause (i),
    except that the child is younger than 18 years of
    age at the time a petition is filed on his or her
    behalf for classification as an immediate relative
    under section 201(b).''.
    SEC. 4. <>  EFFECTIVE DATE.

    (a) In General.--Except as provided in subsection (b), the
    amendments made by this Act shall take effect on the date of the
    enactment of this Act.
    (b) Exception.--An alien <>  who is described in
    section 101(b)(1)(G)(iii) of the Immigration and Nationality Act, as
    added by section 3, and attained 18 years of age on or after April 1,
    2008, shall be deemed to meet the age requirement specified in subclause
    (III) of such section if a petition for classification of the alien as
    an immediate relative under section 201(b) of the

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    Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1151(b)) is filed not later
    than 2 years after the date of the enactment of this Act.

    Approved November 30, 2010.

    LEGISLATIVE HISTORY--S. 1376:
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    SENATE REPORTS: No. 111-220 (Comm. on the Judiciary).
    CONGRESSIONAL RECORD, Vol. 156 (2010):
    July 21, considered and passed Senate.
    Nov. 15, considered and passed House.