[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 8, Volume 1]
[Revised as of January 1, 2010]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 8CFR204.305]

[Page 132]
 
                     TITLE 8--ALIENS AND NATIONALITY
 
               CHAPTER I--DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY
 
PART 204_IMMIGRANT PETITIONS--Table of Contents
 
         Subpart C_Intercountry Adoption of a Convention Adoptee
 
Sec. 204.305  State preadoption requirements.

    State preadoption requirements must be complied with when a child is 
coming into the State as a Convention adoptee to be adopted in the 
United States. A qualified Convention adoptee is deemed to be coming to 
be adopted in the United States if either of the following factors 
exists:
    (a) The applicant/petitioner will not complete the child's adoption 
abroad; or
    (b) In the case of a married applicant/petitioner, the child was 
adopted abroad only by one of the spouses, rather than by the spouses 
jointly, so that it will be necessary for the other spouse to adopt the 
child after the child's admission.