124 STAT. 3058 PUBLIC LAW 111–287—NOV. 30, 2010 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 REQUIRE- MENT. 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; International Adoption Simplification Act. 8 USC 1101 note. Nov. 30, 2010 [S. 1376]
