f your agency has a good reputation, responsibility, and provides an efficient work, they will not oppose to our intervention in the process. Nonetheless, our expertise has proven to us that the representatives of these agencies in Guatemala (Attorneys, social workers, staff) are compliant with the help of another entity which will help them during the adoption process. This intervention will help the process achieve completion in a shorter amount of time as well as the execution of your fees.

If an adoption agency that is processing your case is not as outstanding as it should be or if it is not efficient or if it does not provide you with “all” the information regarding your case, we´ll find opposition to our intervention. This can be understood well if you take into account that our service is to provide our client with “all” the information regarding the development of the process since its very beginning.

Because of this reason, the first stage of our intervention consists on pinpointing the case and issue an assessment without involving the agency or its representatives on the first stage. There is a wide variety of favorable activities for the process which can be carried out without the intervention of your agency. These decisions must be taken as a group. We have witnessed in many cases that there might be situations that need our participation and intervention in the process that has to be undertaken with the Attorneys in charge of a case. Out interest is to provide you with verified information and help the case come to completion. The experience of the Attorneys that have encountered in other cases “almost all” the possible obstacles in adoption cases is of great value in order to resolve a specific situations. Few contracts between a family and an agency limit the intervention of a third Attorney “during the process” without the consent of the Attorney in charge of the case. When a situation like this arises and there is a lack of collaboration of the Attorney in charge of the case, the analysis and recommendations are met solely through the family. As stated above, it is important to have a complete knowledge of the process in order to suggest solutions.

The fact that the number of Notaries, intermediaries, and other people who intervene in Guatemalan adoption process is reduced helps us determine the status of the process and the reaction of the persons in Guatemala regarding our intervention. We have encountered many reactions towards our intervention. In some cases, the first reaction has not been favorable even though the agency, Notaries and any other person who intervenes in the process finally notices that our participation is focused on finding solutions and alternatives to the process and not to point out problems.

We have had cases in which the information provided by an agency is as follows:
• The Consent of the Embassy (INS) was delivered 5 months ago and we have not been notified.
• The case has been held up for 3 months at the Family Court and I have not been assigned an interview date with the Social Worker, or the file has not been able to leave the Family Court.
• We received the referral 3 months ago and we have not filed the initial documents at the Embassy.

This information is very common and it can be verified in any institution. There has to be a coherent explanation for each problem as well as a solution. If the file was presented to a Family Court, Embassy, or Procuraduría and months go by without any news, it is the proper moment to find out what happened to the file, the problem that has arisen, and find a solution so that the process continues as smoothly as possible.

Evidently, the fact of the matter that the agency and its representatives in Guatemala know that a family hired Adoption Supervisors, enables them to proceed in the following manner:

• Manage and issue exact, true, and detailed information.
• Keep a more fluid and open communication with the family because they know that any event of the process will be confirmed and notified immediately to the family.
• Avoid issuing any explanations that do not reflect the reality of the facts or if such information is not based on Guatemalan laws because they know that the staff of Adoption Supervisors will assess the situation and will issue an opinion regarding this matter.
• In general terms, help the adoption process to become more efficient and that the Notaries become more careful in assessing the processes.
Finally, the goal is to propose a legal strategy in order to resolve the process and bring it to a successful completion as well as to achieve a happy conclusion for the minor child and for the family through an adoption process.
 

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