After children arrive home with their adoptive families, a series of post-placement reports must be completed to meet both agency, state and sending country requirements.
Bulgaria’s new post-placement guidelines require agency reports to be completed at 1 month, 6 months, 12 months, 18 months, 24 months, 30 months, and 36 months after the child arrives.
The Bulgarian Central Authority the Ministry of Justice (MOJ) requires that the reports be apostilled when sent to Bulgaria.
Photo Requirements
Families must submit 8 different photographs with each report. Holt cannot forward reports to Bulgaria without these photos. Remind families to please upload their required photos on Holt’s Post Placement Report webpage. It is important that all photos used fit the guidelines below. Since these photographs will be going to the Bulgarian government, we want to remain culturally sensitive.
Appropriate Types of Photos to Submit
- Please include a variety of photos with family (or friends), not just photos of your child alone.
- Please choose photographs that highlight your child and the family enjoying his/her company.
- We suggest that the photos show your child happy and appropriately dressed (i.e. warmly dressed if the environment looks cold, etc.)
- Important: Photos should be good quality and large enough to see child well (see template)
Types of Photos to Avoid
- Photos with costumes or pets
- Photos with bathing suits, swim shorts, bath time, or of the child topless or bare bodied at all.
- Photos with food all over their face. (i.e. the typical American spaghetti, birthday cake pictures)
Sibling/Twin Post Placement Reports
Only one written report is necessary as long as it addresses each child individually. Separate photo page sets are required for each child. (i.e. 2 kids = 8 photo pages with 2 photos, per child, for a total of 16 photos.)