128 pages
228 x 145mm
ISBN-10: 1 85856 012 8
ISBN-13: 978 1 85856 012 0

Immigration and adoption become inextricably linked when an overseas child, adopted abroad or about to be adopted in the UK, becomes subject to immigration control. Different adoption situations lead to a variety of scenarios for immigration purposes. Both areas are complicated in their own right and often contradictory, with conflicting and opposing fundamental aims.

While immigration law tends to be restrictive, preventing the unity of the family and even splitting up the families, adoption law has the welfare of the child as its central concern.

This book will interest all those involved in the adoption process and provides comprehensive converge of all major aspects arising in inter-country adoptions.