42 U.S.C. § 11611 : US Code - Section 11611: Report on compliance with the Hague Convention on International Child Abduction

Search 42 U.S.C. § 11611 : US Code - Section 11611: Report on compliance with the Hague Convention on International Child Abduction

(a) In general
Beginning 6 months after October 21, 1998, and every 12 months
thereafter, the Secretary of State shall submit a report to the
appropriate congressional committees on the compliance with the
provisions of the Convention on the Civil Aspects of International
Child Abduction, done at The Hague on October 25, 1980, by the
signatory countries of the Convention. Each such report shall
include the following information:
(1) The number of applications for the return of children
submitted by applicants in the United States to the Central
Authority for the United States that remain unresolved more than
18 months after the date of filing.
(2) A list of the countries to which children in unresolved
applications described in paragraph (1) are alleged to have been
abducted, are being wrongfully retained in violation of United
States court orders, or which have failed to comply with any of
their obligations under such convention with respect to
applications for the return of children, access to children, or
both, submitted by applicants in the United States.
(3) A list of the countries that have demonstrated a pattern of
noncompliance with the obligations of the Convention with respect
to applications for the return of children, access to children,
or both, submitted by applicants in the United States to the
Central Authority for the United States.
(4) Detailed information on each unresolved case described in
paragraph (1) and on actions taken by the Department of State to
resolve each such case, including the specific actions taken by
the United States chief of mission in the country to which the
child is alleged to have been abducted.
(5) Information on efforts by the Department of State to
encourage other countries to become signatories of the
Convention.
(6) A list of the countries that are parties to the Convention
in which, during the reporting period, parents who have been left-
behind in the United States have not been able to secure prompt
enforcement of a final return or access order under a Hague
proceeding, of a United States custody, access, or visitation
order, or of an access or visitation order by authorities in the
country concerned, due to the absence of a prompt and effective
method for enforcement of civil court orders, the absence of a
doctrine of comity, or other factors.
(7) A description of the efforts of the Secretary of State to
encourage the parties to the Convention to facilitate the work of
nongovernmental organizations within their countries that assist
parents seeking the return of children under the Convention.
(b) Definition
In this section, the term "Central Authority for the United
States" has the meaning given the term in Article 6 of the
Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction,
done at The Hague on October 25, 1980.