Claims for adoption of Colombian children have come to a halt as hopeful foreign couples have to wait for a strike within the justice system to be resolved, newspaper El Espectador reported Wednesday.
A spokeperson for a French adoption organization told the newspaper around 120 families have been unable to legalize adoption applications because of the strike.
“Families have been unable to obtain the rulings of adoption and have not been able to go to their home countries … they can not leave the country, they will not leave without their children.” expressed Schattka.
The spokewoman requested that “priority be given to these proceedings, to prompt judges to have on their desks procedures and ruling requests, to speak out so that these families can go home.”
