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Illinois State Law
**UPDATE**
Amendments to the Illinois Adoption Registry went into effect in January of this year. The Registry is now free to anyone who completes a medical questionnaire at the time of registration...and reunited adoptees can obtain, free of charge, a copy of their original birth certificate through the Registry if both they and their birth mother (and birth father if his name appears on the obc) apply to the Registry. For additional details, please e-mail: Melisha Mitchell
If a consent form is on file from the birth parents, identifying information may be provided to the adoptee at 21 (or younger with written permission of adoptive parents). Adult adoptees may register with the agency a desire not to have identifying information shared with the birth parents if such a request is made. Adoptive parents may register a similar non-consent on behalf of an adoptee under age 21. The Department of Public Health operates a mutual consent registry for matching birth parents and adult adoptees. Adoptees may register at 21, or if younger than 21 but older than 18, with written permission of the adoptive parents. Identifying information may only be provided to birth parents and adoptees if consents from both are on file. Non-identifying information will be provided to an adoptee age 18 or older upon request. Illinois has a Confidential Intermediary (CI) Program. When you contact the state for help be sure to ask about the new program. The address is:
Illinois Links Illinois State Adoption Department
State Courts
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