What is ICPC?
This acronym means Interstate ComPact Contract. This contract was designed to cut down on the trafficking of children from one state to another. I.E. You live in the state of Texas and your birthmother gives birth in the state of Kansas. You travel to Kansas for the birth of your soon to be adopted child and the birth parent(s) TPR (Terminate Parental Rights). The TPR documents are sent to the ICPC office in Topeka, KS. Your adoption document file is reviewed and then sent to Austin, TX. When the ICPC office in Austin, TX receives your file: they review it, approve it, call the ICPC office in Topeka, KS and “give you clearance” to return to your home state of TX with your adopted child, who was born in the state of KS. This process can be accomplished in 24 hours or take up to 21 days–depending on the ICPC office staff in each state’s capitol and how diligently your adoption attorney works for you (by getting on the phone and pushing it through) and/or whether or not your adoption doc
