                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

RECORDS OF ADOPTIONS (§ 32.1-262)

A. For each adoption decreed by a court in this Commonwealth, the court shall
require the preparation of a report of adoption on a form furnished by the State
Registrar. The report shall (i) include such facts as are necessary to locate
and identify the original certificate of birth of the person adopted or, in the
case of a person who was born in a foreign country, evidence from sources
determined to be reliable by the court as to the date, place of birth and
parentage of such person; (ii) provide information necessary to establish a new
certificate of birth of the person adopted; and (iii) identify the order of
adoption and be certified by the clerk of court.

B. Information in the possession of the petitioner necessary to prepare the
report of adoption shall be furnished with the petition for adoption by each
petitioner for adoption or by his attorney. In all cases where a child is placed
for adoption by a child-placing agency, the report shall be completed and filed
with the court by a representative of the agency. A final order of adoption
shall not be entered until the information required by this section has been
furnished unless the court, for good cause shown, finds the information to be
unavailable or unnecessary.

C. On or before the tenth day of each month, the clerk of such court shall
forward to the State Registrar all records of decrees of adoption entered in the
preceding calendar month, together with such related reports as the State
Registrar may require.

D. When the State Registrar receives a report of adoption, annulment of
adoption, amendment, or amendment of a decree of adoption for a person born
outside this Commonwealth, such report shall be forwarded to the appropriate
registration authority in the state of birth. When the State Registrar receives
a report of adoption from a court in this Commonwealth for a person born in a
foreign country, a birth certificate shall be registered for such person in
accordance with the provisions of &#xA7; 32.1-261, and a copy of the report of
adoption shall be transmitted to the appropriate federal agency.

HISTORY: Code 1950, § 32-353.32; 1964, c. 99; 1977, cc. 135, 531; 1979, c. 711;
1983, c. 240; 1988, c. 431; 2003, c. 504; 2004, c. 88.