Posted in Ethics, In The News on Apr 24th, 2008 16 Comments »
Posted today on the wire:
Vietnam has failed to police its adoption system, allowing corruption, fraud and baby-selling to flourish, the U.S. Embassy says in a new report obtained by The Associated Press.
The nine-page document describes brokers scouring villages for babies, hospitals selling infants whose mothers cannot pay their bills, and a grandmother giving away her [...]
Posted in Ethics, The Process on Apr 7th, 2008 47 Comments »
From Ethica:
According to CIS, On April 1, 2008 an internal USCIS field memo was inadvertently given to the public regarding a new policy requiring DNA testing for known birth families. CIS maintains this memo was not forwarded to adoption service providers. However, some adoptive families were alerted to the new requirement upon receipt of their [...]
Posted in The Process on Apr 4th, 2008 6 Comments »
It’s Friday evening, April 4th. Four full days after the new DNA regulation apparently went into effect. Three full days after the USCIS internal memo was unofficially posted on the internet and we were assured (per the memo) that an official announcement would be published “soon.” And yet, there is no information about this new regulation [...]
Posted in Experiences, In The News, Tools & Resources on Apr 2nd, 2008 14 Comments »
It’s my guess that everyone connected to Vietnam adoptions has seen the internal USCIS memo regarding a new DNA requirement that was posted on Bring Our Children Home yesterday. This memo was news to us as it was to most people in the adoption community – although it appears that USCIS did notify some agencies [...]
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