假设你第一轮通过,第二轮评估一般是一个4天的培训,你将和其他几对夫妇一起上课。 一来增加你对child care的知识,二来看你和陌生人之间的interaction。这种课程通常是由3-4个社工负责,每个社工会给你们轮流打分,分析你们的强项弱项as a couple 然后将结果告知将会评估你们的社工让她来做一个有的放矢的第三轮评估。
第三轮评估是一对一或者是一对二的,就是一个社工对着你们夫妇。在每次社工来见你们的时候一般会给你作业,有一系列的问题要你们写出来然后发给社工,然后社工再根据你们的回答针对性的提问的。如果要问我细致的内容就是要从你们父母的父母这一代开始说起,一直到你们现在以致将来。曾经也有不少用户想present给我们一个rosy picture 但是真的是不可能的,如果故事不是真的很容易就看出来了所以以诚实为第一要点。 如果你们没有不育的问题的话,社工会dig really deep to find out why you would want to adopt的。 这个过程大概维持8周,然后社工会根据你提供的情况为你们写一份大概70-80页的报告,事无大小包括在内。你还要提供3个认识5年以上的referees (其中一名为家庭成员)然后社工会去家访他们以了解他们对你们的认识。
假设你三关(外加你俩的经济,家庭,健康,住宿,无案底记录)都过了,社工也认可你们是合适的收养人,你们就要去panel见panel members。这里包括小儿科医生,社工(looked after children)还有各种Key members, 他们也会问你一系列问题,你通过了才叫approved adopters才可着手收养孩子的手续。
领养的孩子作为family member申请签证时,会被严格的审查。 http://www.ukba.homeoffice.gov.uk/visas-immigration/partners-families/citizens-settled/children/
You can bring your adopted child to the UK if you can show that they:
were adopted when both parents lived together abroad or when either parent was settled in the UK; and
have the same rights as any of your other children; and
were adopted because their original parents could not care for them, and there has been a genuine transfer of parental responsibility; have broken all ties with their original family; and
were not adopted just to make it easier to enter the UK.
其中最后一条感觉好像97年被取消的曾被用来有效限制结婚移民的primary purpose rule
(b) The Primary Purpose Rule
Between 1983 and 1997 the “Primary Purpose Rule” imposed a requirement that the applicant should show “that the marriage was not entered into primarily to obtain admission to the United Kingdom”. This was a major ground for refusing applications and dismissing appeals against refusal but it was controversial because it required the applicant to prove a negative. In 1997, shortly after the general election of that year, the rule was abolished.