The Office of Childrens Issues in the U.S. State Department has created a new website specifically for International Adoptions, Intercountry Adoption. This new site has much of the information previously provided through the travel.state.gov site plus more information about the Hague and more up to date statistics and charts for each country. It [...]
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As a former PAP, who is now a P and AP, I am grateful to Mirah, Amyadoptee and Stella for their comments on the last post. Do I agree with all of their points of view? No, but I am still grateful. Because left to myself, I would not have the value of the perspective [...]
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Last week Vietnamese officials met to review the three years of US-VN adoptions under the Agreement which is to expire on September 1st. The Vietnamese press published three articles on this meeting online, including an interview with the Head of the Ministry of Justice’s International Adoption Agency, Vu Duc Long.
The first article, “Tougher adoption regulations [...]
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There was another quarterly ASP (Adoption Service Provider) meeting at the US Embassy in HaNoi this week. Ethica has posted their notes on the meeting on their website. The Embassy provided updates and information on the current I600 wait and ‘blocked’ provinces, the new fingerprinting process, the current situation with the expiration of [...]
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