Voices for Vietnam Adoption Integrity

Many people don’t realize that Ethica is primarily a volunteer effort. Most of the people working for Ethica do not get paid and in fact pay for much of Ethica’s expenses out of their own pockets. Ethica is in a unique position of standing in the middle - representing birth families, children and [...]

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Ethica has posted this important call to action with step-by-step instructions on who to contact and how to contact them as well as a cut-and-paste letter for each and every individual who is hoping to adopt, who has adopted or who is touched by adoptions in Vietnam in some way.  They have outlined the most [...]

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From the Vietnamese Press, clarification on the deadline dates and also a glimmer of hope for the future of adoptions from Vietnam…
Head of the Ministry’s Department for International Child Adoption Vu Duc Long added that Vietnam will stop taking new adoption applications from the US from July 1.
According to the official, the decision not [...]

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Today the US Embassy, Hanoi released a summary of irregularities in adoptions in Vietnam that is the longest and most thorough, to date. Likewise they have also released a Warning Concerning Adoptions in Vietnam which states, in part (emphasis mine):
On April 25, the Government of Vietnam announced that it will allow adoption to [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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Some of you may have noticed that VVAI has been a little “quiet” lately. A few people commented in the last news post that they wondered why we hadn’t written any opinion pieces in a while. Certainly there are things happening in Vietnam adoptions… There’s the new group, Bring Our Children Home, comprised primarily of [...]

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Millville woman’s agonizing wait for adoption ends with happy homecoming
By EDWARD VAN EMBDEN
Press of Atlantic City
“Vietnam is a cautionary tale,” she said. “The parents, effectively, were told they should give up. In the end it might have been a test of wills.”
The legal battle has cost Sawyer, a single 25-year-old, nearly every cent she [...]

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 Vietnam police bust baby trafficking gang
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Vietnamese police have arrested four people this week for trafficking babies, including one yet to be born, for adoption inside the country or in China, authorities here said Wednesday.
Authorities believed the gang bought Vietnamese baby girls for $500 each and boys for $1,000 and sold them for about twice [...]

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The long awaited JCICS standards have been published and ASPs now have a short period of time in which to act as signatories or not.
 
What Is JCICS? In short, Join Council on International Children’s Services is a membership group for adoption service providers (adoption agencies), social services groups and other licensed non-profit advocacy groups. It [...]

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