2024-07-03 06:24:53
(ANSA) – ROME, JULY 2 – Over four million euros (4.37 million euros) have been allocated for prospective parents who are undergoing international adoption procedures characterized by extremely critical situations that have led to an anomalous extension of the time required to complete the adoption process, with a consequent increase in costs and significant inconvenience. The funds were made available by the decree of the Minister for the Family, Birth Rate and Equal Opportunities Eugenia Roccella of April 29, already published in the Official Journal. These are “unpredictable and extraordinarily burdensome conditions”, caused by the problems and slowdowns due to the pandemic crisis generated by the spread of Covid 19, which have severely compromised the normal process of adoption procedures which, started before 2020, up until 2023, “have not managed to complete the adoption with the authorization for the adopted minor to enter Italy”; in other cases, these are couples who have started the adoption process in countries such as China, Ukraine, the Russian Federation, Belarus, where the international crises that have arisen have led to “a situation of total stalemate in the adoption procedures, without it being possible to predict, at this stage, if and when they will resume”. Minister Roccella has deemed it appropriate, within the framework of the activities to support international adoptions, to provide for the provision of a fixed-rate financial contribution to support couples in the face of practical and psychological inconveniences caused by the lengthening of the procedures and any additional costs necessary to complete the adoption process. The couples who have the possibility of benefiting from the financial contributions, which vary from 3,500 euros to 6,500 euros, are almost a thousand in total, precisely 980. (ANSA).
2024-07-03 06:24:53