Last updated: 11/18/2024 - added US ONLY where appropriate
Here are the five major places Holt adoptees should be requesting their records from. I have requested them multiple times over the years, and have gotten different information at different times. The window for requesting information from Holt is closing. All the adoption records will be sent to NCRC where it could be caught up in a huge bureaucracy and could take years or decades to digitize and sort through.
1. [US ONLY] Holt International
Email: pas@holtinternational.org
Hold International sent me a form (see commends) that I filled out to get the original adoption papers (not a copy).
2. Holt Korea
Email: pasc@holt.or.kr
3. NCRC
4. [US ONLY] USCIS FOIA (Freedom of Info Act)
Web Portal: https://first.uscis.gov
Rebecca Kimmel has an excellent page with additional information on making a FOIA request: https://www.paperslip.org/foia-request-for-us-adoptees
5. [US ONLY] State you were adopted into
Google "[Name of State] Vital Records" and click on the first link.
For me, I was adopted into Indiana state, so my link looks like this:
The process for NCRC has changed. You must now enter your request through their web portal, and not simply fill out a form and e-mail it back.
ReplyDeleteThe portal that NCRC provides, is really just an electronic (web based) version of the paper form. This seems like a step in a positive direction to me (in terms of efficiency).
ReplyDeleteHere's the doc I got for requesting adoption papers from Holt International.
ReplyDeletehttps://drive.google.com/file/d/15GJn0-wkijddfNsV9kwMf8EDWg6RIgKh/view?usp=sharing