Adoption of Peggy

A judge in the Worcester Division of the Juvenile Court Department adjudicated the five year old daughter, whom we shall call Peggy, of S.T. (father), an Indian national living in the Commonwealth on a temporary work visa, in need of care and protection and committed her to the permanent custody of *691the Department of Social Services (department), pursuant to G. L. c. 119, § 26. The judge also ordered the entry of a decree, pursuant to G. L. c. 210, § 3, dispensing with the need for the father’s consent to, or notice of, any petition for the adoption of the child. The father appealed,…