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New Mexico is a sealed record state, meaning that adoption records are not available to the adult adoptee, birth parents, and/or adoptive parents without a court order. There are so many of us who would like to have information about our beginnings and our biological relatives, or a birth parent that would like to know how his/her adult child has fared. Because of this, we have worked out a system with the District Court to allow this to happen. It is called the Intermediary System.

NM Adoption Search was created by the currently certified Court Appointed Intermediaries for the State of New Mexico with the sole purpose of aiding adoptees, birth parents and siblings in reunion. This group of dedicated Confidential Intermediaries work diligently to uphold the integrity of the law while fulfilling successful searches and reunions at a reasonable price.

For further information, please check out our Procedure page, or contact one of the Intermediaries listed. If you elect to use an attorney, he/she must contact the CYFD Adoption Unit for a list of certified intermediaries or use their website at www.cyfd.org. You may also contact the CYFD Adoption Unit at 505-827-8400 for further information.

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New Mexico

Adoption Search

ABOUT NEW MEXICO ADOPTION SEARCH:

Related Links:

State of New Mexico, Children Youth & Families Division/Adoption Unit

http://www.cyfd.org

International Soundex Reunion Registry

http://www.isrr.net

In Memorium 1944 - 2011 : SALLY FILE

In March of 1979 a woman who had searched for birth family put an ad in the Albuquerque Journal: “If anyone is interested in search for reunion, please come to...,” and gave an address. Operation Identity was born. Sally File made up the name after seeing a notice on television about a group called Operation Identification, which worked to fingerprint children to prevent kidnapping, and she thought, “Well, we’re looking for our identities as adults.”

Sally was instrumental in getting New Mexico’s laws changed to put in place the current confidential intermediary system, whereby adult adoptees, birth parents and siblings can search for their biological family, through a Certified Court Appointed Intermediary.

Over 3,000 cases have been handled by Sally – at which point she decided to quit counting. After years and years of searching Sally has now passed the responsibility on to Ann House and the rest of the intermediaries. She continues to support and aid the intermediaries with her vast knowledge and remarkable resources, while devoting a considerable amount of time to the ISRR.

We are honored to have had Sally File as our mentor and friend. For all of us who spend the time and resources necessary to reunite biological families, we are all quite conscious of the fact that none of this could have been possible without the remarkable woman named Sally File.