ICPC State Pages

About the ICPC

The Association of Administrators of the Interstate Compact on the Placement of Children (AAICPC) was established in 1974 and consists of members from all 50 states, the District of Columbia and the U.S. Virgin Islands. The AAICPC has authority under ICPC to "promulgate rules and regulations to carry out more effectively the terms and provisions of this compact." The AAICPC obtains its Secretariat Services, as an affiliate of the American Public Human Services Association (APHSA).

For more information, please visit the AAICPC website.

Contact the AAICPC

American Public Human Services Association
1133 Nineteenth Street, NW
Suite 400
Washington, DC 20036
(202) 682-0100
fax: (202) 289-6555

Web Manager: Carla Fults [cfults@aphsa.org]

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ICPC STATE Pages

Virginia

Office Hours: Monday-Friday,8-5 EST Please do not contact ICPC for Background checks, Please contact OBI at 804-726-7099 · Phone: (804) 726-7557 · Fax: N/A

Virginia Adoption

Virginia permits the following types of adoptions in addition to public adoptions:

Adoption Type	Yes/No
Private Agency	Yes
Private Attorney	Yes
Independent	Yes

Adoption Statute-Non-Agency; Independent; Private Adoptions:

63.2-1200

Public

Public Adoptive Placement-Requirements:

63.2-1221

Adoption Assistance

Adoption assistance payments begin:

At the time the child is placed

Sending State Adoption Subsidy Payments (Guidelines):

Virginia. Department of Social Services; Adoption Agency Placement; Volume VII; Section III, Chapter C, Section 8 (Subsidy/Adoption Assistance).

Special Needs

Virginia definition of "Special Needs":

Section 63.2-1300, Code of Virginia. A “child with special needs” shall mean any child (I) in the custody of a local board of social services which has the authority to place the child for adoption and consent thereto....or (ii) in the custody of a licensed child placing agency.....

has at least one of the following individual characteristics that make the child hard to place: a physical, mental, or emotional disability existing before legal adoption; a hereditary, congenital problem or birth injury that could lead to a future disability; being six years of age or older; being a member of a minority or mixed racial heritage; being a member of a sibling group that is ready for placement at the same time and that should not be separated; or having significant emotional ties with the foster parents with whom the child has resided for at least 12 months, when the adoption is in the best interest of the child and when the subsidy is necessary to consummate the adoption by these foster parents.

Use the above criteria only when one of the other individual characteristics does not apply. A child whose only individual characteristic is emotional ties must be provided with a state subsidy agreement, rather than a IV-E subsidy agreement, even if child is IV-E eligible.

Finalization

Adoption may be finalized in another state:

Before finalization can occur in Virginia, child must be in adoptive placement:

6 months

Statutory code/cite for Adoption Petition:

63.2-1201

Court Jurisdiction for Adoption Cases:

Circuit Court

Home Study (Adoptions)

Statutory code/cite for the Adoptive Home Studies:

63.2-1208/63.2-1201