Posted in Chosing An Agency, Tools & Resources on Feb 13th, 2008 5 Comments »
JCICS originally promised to make its proposed Standards of Practice available for review on January 20th. That date was later pushed back to January 27th and finally to “early February.” As of 1:00pm Pacific Time on February 13th the Standards are still not available. We understand that it takes time and careful deliberation to craft [...]
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 Chosing An Agency on Jan 4th, 2008 No Comments »
January 3rd: JCICS announced a revision of their timeline for their Vietnam Standards of Practice. According to the announcement, This decision was made in order to ensure that the most up-to-date information is incorporated in the document which will be presented to Vietnamese provinces and the DIA by Joint Council President & CEO Tom DiFilipo. [...]
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