A judge has approved an application to reunite a Sudanese family in New Zealand using the Adoption Act. (file photo)Two Sudanese sisters have been adopted by their half brother after the High Court overturned a Family court ruling rejecting the adoption because they might have been too old. They can’t come in as refugees, but he applied to adopt both, which would immediately make them citizens. There were also discrepancies because the Ethiopian calendar was not the same as the Gregorian calendar used in New Zealand. There were no issues of child trafficking or identity fraud and the man was a proper person to make the application, the judge said.

Source: Stuff September 21, 2021 00:11 UTC