---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 14951"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "14951"
heading: "Recognition of Convention adoptions"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/14951"
units:
  - "Chapter 143 — Intercountry Adoptions"
  - "Subchapter V — General Provisions"
---

# §14951. Recognition of Convention adoptions


Subject to Article 24 of the [Convention](/usc/42/14902.md?p=9), adoptions concluded between two [other Convention countries](/usc/42/14902.md?p=13) that meet the requirements of Article 23 of the [Convention](/usc/42/14902.md?p=9) and that became final before the date of entry into force of the [Convention](/usc/42/14902.md?p=9) for the United States shall be recognized thereafter in the United States and given full effect. Such recognition shall include the specific effects described in Article 26 of the [Convention](/usc/42/14902.md?p=9).


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 106–279, title V, § 501, Oct. 6, 2000, 114 Stat. 843.)

## Notes

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Effective Date

Section effective upon entry into force for the United States of the Convention on Protection of Children and Co-operation in Respect of Intercountry Adoption, pursuant to Article 46(2)(a) of the Convention, with transition rule, see section 505(a)(2), (b) of Pub. L. 106–279, set out as an Effective Dates; Transition Rule note under section 14901 of this title.