Posted in Chosing An Agency on Jan 24th, 2008 2 Comments »
JCICS has modified their update about the forthcoming Standards of Practice to say that they will be available for review “around January 27th” ; the statement previously said they would be made public around the 20th. The projected date for signatory ASP compliance to the new standards remains July 30, 2008.
Posted in Chosing An Agency, US Embassy in Hanoi on Jan 23rd, 2008 22 Comments »
The US Embassy in Hanoi’s quarterly meeting on adoption issues in Vietnam is this Thursday, January 24th. For a number of reasons, this is a very important meeting. As we mentioned in the previous announcement, according to the invitation, there will be “a wide-ranging discussion of current issues in Vietnamese adoptions as well as visa [...]
Posted in Ethics on Jan 22nd, 2008 1 Comment »
On Sunday night Dateline NBC’s feature, To Catch a Baby Broker profiled shocking cases of corruption in Guatemalan adoption. The cases of kidnapping, unreported medical issues and unavailable children being referred for adoption showed the worst kinds of adoption-related corruption. It would be easy to dismiss these reports as extremely rare and only happening in Guatemala. But [...]
Posted in In The News on Jan 22nd, 2008 9 Comments »
Local woman’s effort to adopt orphan stalls
By Brian Morelli
Iowa City Press-Citizen
Brendler officially adopted Madison, who turns 1 today, through what is called a Vietnamese “Giving and Receiving Ceremony” on Oct. 26, 2007. Pre-approved for the adoption by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security before Brendler left Oct. 24, the U.S. State Department has refused to [...]
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