Comments on: Agency Closing

By: SharaK

SharaK — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 12:48:15 +0000

Mess doesn’t sum it up correctly! We were issued a NOID because the BF lied to the CIS about allowing his daughter to be adopted, yet he signed the papers. We are less than 2 weeks away from our deadline (August 20th) for an appeal and we have 4 working days in which to get the stuff mailed. The BF is still flip-flopping even as of August 8th. Without his final decision our case is at a complete halt!

http://kettleadoptionjourney.blogspot.com/

By: Gershom

Gershom — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 06:13:42 +0000

Does anyone find it odd that they grossed nearly 9 million dollars (8.8) in 2006. What kinds of expenses could cause an agency grossing that much money to fall bankrupt just 2 years later? Are you guys aware their top paid employee made $218K? Wow. Thats a lot of money.

type: Commonwealth Adoptions” into the line at this link to pull up their 990 forms IF you’re interested in looking into this more.

If I were doing business with them, I’d definitely want to know.
http://dynamodata.fdncenter.org

By: map

map — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 14:10:23 +0000

It is odd that in the article she includes Nepal as a country that will not allow adoptions for Americans.
Nepal held up adoptions from all countries the last year and did not take on any new cases for several months, probably due to the extreme political turmoil of ousting the King and putting the mostly Maoist government in place; but they are now processing the old cases and have put new adoption rules in place. Adoptions are expected to start up again once they finish with the back log. Several agencies such as Holt as starting new Nepal programs.
Nepal has had extreme pressure from several of the embassies to process the cases, not the other way around as in Guat & Vietnam.
(Not that it is easy to adopt from Nepal- just she had her info all wrong)

By: Nicki

Nicki — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 15:16:55 +0000

I’m so sorry Michelle. hang in there!

By: Kris

Kris — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 14:52:15 +0000

Michelle, I hope you can complete your adoption smoothly! I’ll be thinking of you.

By: Kathryn

Kathryn — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 04:40:56 +0000

I have no problem with the link; maybe they fixed it.

By: Tracy

Tracy — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 03:34:42 +0000

I hope this doesn’t post twice….

That link is not up to date. Children’s Hope International has also been denied Hague accreditation. They are apealing

By: Michelle

Michelle — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 03:31:45 +0000

I am one of the families in the Vietnam program with I600 approval but without a G&R. We are currently making plans to sort this mess out, and I mean MESS. You can follow our blog at http://www.harwells.org, if you are interested.

By: T

Wed, 06 Aug 2008 03:31:29 +0000

That link is not up to date. Children’s Hope International has been denied Hague also. They are appealing