Intercountry Adoption Agency Lookup
Search for a U.S. agency or person that is, or was, accredited to provide intercountry adoption services, or that was denied accreditation. Click on a provider to see any documented adverse actions, denials, prior compliance issues, as well as any reports they come from.
About This Data
Since 2008, U.S. agencies and persons providing intercountry adoption services must be accredited or approved under the Intercountry Adoption Act and 22 CFR Part 96. The Department of State designates the accrediting entity responsible for accreditation: the Council on Accreditation (COA) until March 2018, the Intercountry Adoption Accreditation and Maintenance Entity (IAAME) from April 2018, and the Center for Excellence in Adoption Services (CEAS), which took over IAAME’s providers between 2022 and 2025.
Every entry here comes from a public report by one of those entities or the Department of State. Findings are quoted as the report states them. A provider with no entries here may still have had issues that were never substantiated, never made public, or fall outside the reports listed below.
What the action types mean
- Suspension
- Temporary loss of accreditation. The provider may not provide intercountry adoption services until the suspension ends.
- Cancellation
- Loss of accreditation. The provider may reapply, as one provider in this list did.
- Refusal to renew
- The accrediting entity declined to renew accreditation when it expired.
- Debarment
- Imposed by the Secretary of State, temporarily or permanently. Accreditation is cancelled.
- Denial
- An application for accreditation was denied and the applicant has not since been accredited.
- Corrective action required
- An adverse action under 22 CFR 96.75 requiring the provider to fix specific problems. Not included in the public lists of suspensions, cancellations, refusals to renew, and debarments.
- Cessation of services in a country
- An adverse action requiring the provider to stop providing adoption services in one or more named countries, while keeping its accreditation otherwise.
- Notice of deficiencies
- Written notice that a complaint or review substantiated violations. Not an adverse action in itself; any action that followed is listed separately.
- Voluntary corrective action
- A substantiated violation the provider corrected on its own under 22 CFR 96.76(a). Not an adverse action.
Limits of the record
Detailed findings, including complaints, self-reports, and corrective actions, come from two reports: COA’s report covering actions completed before April 1, 2018, and IAAME’s report last updated July 2, 2020. Later reports by IAAME and CEAS list suspensions, cancellations, refusals to renew, debarments, and denials, but not corrective actions or the reasons for an action. Since September 30, 2025, CEAS has been the only accrediting entity; IAAME’s role ended then. Under 22 CFR 96.92(b), CEAS will provide a brief statement of reasons for an adverse action on specific request.
From 2008 until April 1, 2013, the Colorado Department of Human Services was also an accrediting entity, limited to adoption service providers licensed in Colorado. No report of its complaints or adverse actions has been found, so any action it took against a Colorado provider in those years may be missing here. Actions that appear on the Department of State’s list of denials and adverse actions are included.
Many providers left accreditation without any recorded action, usually by not renewing. Where no source gives the date or the reason, the data indicate that rather than guessing. Where sources disagree on a date, both dates are provided. Expirations, relinquishments, and renewals since September 2025 come from State Department notices, which give the effective date; for earlier notices, the date shown may be the date the notice was posted.