Voices for Vietnam Adoption Integrity

Paperwork problems in adoption of two Vietnamese orphans bring heartache
A nursery awaits its second occupant
By Rachel McGrath
Correspondent, Ventura County Star
Wednesday, November 28, 2007
While 6-month-old Lillian Rose sleeps snuggled up to adoptive mother, Julie, 7-month-old Madelyn Grace is still a world away in Vietnam.
Although the Carrolls are the legal parents of both babies under Vietnamese law, [...]

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Recently we asked the U.S. Embassy in Hanoi for more information about the schedule of fees that was to be published according to the Agreement originally signed by Vietnam and the United States. Here is the Consul’s reply:
According to the Memorandum of Understanding, the Government of Vietnam agreed to publish a comprehensive schedule of fees. Such [...]

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NEW FAMILIES IN VISA LIMBO
US BARRING VIET ADOPTED BABIES
By SELIM ALGAR
The New York Post
Despite having Oliver’s adoption fully recognized by Vietnamese authorities in October, the Frenches were informed by US officials that the boy would be denied a visa and could not return with them to America.
The couple is not alone. More than 20 American [...]

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Hanoi To Home On Thanksgiving:
McClains Return Home After Month Overseas With New Child
The U.S. Embassy never issued a Notice of Intent of Denial for Kate’s visa, which alerts a family their adoption is being investigated. The McClains were told by officials they weren’t being investigated by the consulate.
About 15 families are dealing with the notices [...]

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This contribution is republished from the November 2007 Welcome House newsletter, with permission. Thank you, Leonette, for allowing us to share this wonderfully balanced insight into the state of adoption in Vietnam right now! ~ VVAI
By Leonette Boiarski, Welcome House® Director

Children at Nha Trang Orphanage.

In October, I had the pleasure of visiting Vietnam. Over the [...]

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U.S. won’t open its gates for Eden
The McRoberts went to Vietnam in September to adopt Eden and baby girl Jordan, both of whom were abandoned in Thai Nguyen Province. …
Jordan got a visa to come to the United States, McRoberts said.
But instead of a visa for Eden, “we got a NOID — Notice of Intent [...]

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The following commentary is written by Tracy, an adoptive parent of two children.
I was a PLAN family, I try not to say that very often because 1) I don’t think it’s relevant to most of what I post and 2) in many peoples eyes it automatically discredits anything I am about to say. I am [...]

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Rogers Woman Stuck In Vietnam With Adopted Child
Teri McClain, a world away without much outside communication, has spent most of the last four weeks with her new child in Hanoi, Vietnam, sitting, waiting and hoping for a breakthrough.
One wrong answer last month caused her and three other families with newly adopted children to hold desperately [...]

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Adopting a Child in Vietnam from Thanh Nien News…
“In 2006, around 300 children were adopted,” said Trinh Thi Bich from the Agency for Civil Status, Judicial Records and Nationality, “and this year so far we have processed 200 cases.” …
Vietnam has an agreement on child adoption with eleven countries including France, Denmark, Italy, Ireland, Sweden, [...]

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Before I begin a discussion about what defines an “ethical” adoption, I feel it is first necessary to define some basic terms. It’s hard to decide what “ethical” looks like if everyone has their own personal concept of the word. So let’s accept these objective dictionary* definitions and go from there.
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Legal: adj. 1. of or [...]

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