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Apply for an adoption order: Form A58

Use this form to apply to adopt a child who lives in the UK, the Channel Islands or the Isle of Man.

• From: HM Courts & Tribunals Service
• Published: 1 July 2017
• Last updated: 1 July 2022 — See all updates

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Application for an adoption order: Form A58

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Find out more about adopting a child.

To apply for a Convention adoption order (where the child and the adopters are habitually resident in different countries, both of which are contracting States to the 1993 Hague Convention), use Form A59.

To apply to adopt a child who’s been brought to the UK for adoption from a country that is not a contracting State to the 1993 Hague Convention, use Form A60.

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Published 1 July 2017
Last updated 1 July 2022 + show all updates

1. 1 July 2022

   Uploaded new Welsh language version of A58.

2. 17 May 2022

   Added a Welsh page and Welsh version of the HTML

3. 29 June 2021

   The eligibility criteria for applying at note 13 has been amended in the English and Welsh A58 notes documents.

4. 16 June 2021

   Statement of truth amended on the form.

5. 1 July 2017

   First published.