What is Interstate Compact for Domestic Adoptions?
For domestic adoptions, the Interstate Compact on the Placement of Children (ICPC) is an agreement among all fifty states that coordinates the movement of children across state lines for the purpose of placement in foster care, adoptive homes, group homes, residential treatment centers, or on a trial basis with a parent. This uniform law was enacted by all fifty states, the District of Columbia, and the U.S. Virgin Islands to ensure the children placed across state lines have the same protections that children within state lines have. You can be a Minnesota resident where your home study is done and your child can be born in a different state. The ICPC office of the sending state (where your child is born) sends documents including your home study, your agency application form and your family fact sheets as well as the child’s documents to Minnesota ICPC office (receiving state) and Minnesota gives approval so you can come home with your child after the legal process is in place for yo
