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	<title>Voices for Vietnam Adoption Integrity &#187; The Process</title>
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		<title>New Resources On The Web For Prospective Adopters</title>
		<link>http://www.adoptionintegrity.com/2008/11/19/new-resources-on-the-web-for-prospective-adopters/</link>
		<comments>http://www.adoptionintegrity.com/2008/11/19/new-resources-on-the-web-for-prospective-adopters/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Nov 2008 21:23:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christina</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Chosing An Agency]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>If, Indeed</title>
		<link>http://www.adoptionintegrity.com/2008/10/18/if-indeed/</link>
		<comments>http://www.adoptionintegrity.com/2008/10/18/if-indeed/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Oct 2008 20:45:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jena</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Advocacy]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Vietnamese Meet To Review Adoption Procedures, Consider Restructuring</title>
		<link>http://www.adoptionintegrity.com/2008/08/27/vietnamese-meet-to-review-adoption-procedures-consider-restructuring/</link>
		<comments>http://www.adoptionintegrity.com/2008/08/27/vietnamese-meet-to-review-adoption-procedures-consider-restructuring/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Aug 2008 21:58:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christina</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[In The News]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[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, &#8220;Tougher adoption regulations [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Quarterly ASP Meeting</title>
		<link>http://www.adoptionintegrity.com/2008/05/30/quarterly-asp-meeting/</link>
		<comments>http://www.adoptionintegrity.com/2008/05/30/quarterly-asp-meeting/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 30 May 2008 23:03:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christina</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[The Process]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 &#8216;blocked&#8217; provinces, the new fingerprinting process, the current situation with the expiration of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Child&#8217;s Right Campaign</title>
		<link>http://www.adoptionintegrity.com/2008/05/22/a-childs-right-campaign/</link>
		<comments>http://www.adoptionintegrity.com/2008/05/22/a-childs-right-campaign/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 22 May 2008 22:26:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nicki</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Advocacy]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[JCICS is calling for a  campaign by agencies, adoptive parents, prospective adoptive parents, advocates and all of those who have an interest in international adoption in Vietnam to join the Congressional  Coalition on Adoption Co-Chairs and sign their letter to Secretary Condoleezza Rice in support of their recommendations for the continuation of adoptions [...]]]></description>
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		<title>DNA Testing Update</title>
		<link>http://www.adoptionintegrity.com/2008/04/07/dna-testing-update/</link>
		<comments>http://www.adoptionintegrity.com/2008/04/07/dna-testing-update/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Apr 2008 19:13:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Administrator</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Ethics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Process]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>47</slash:comments>
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		<title>Still Waiting for An Official Announcement</title>
		<link>http://www.adoptionintegrity.com/2008/04/04/still-waiting-for-an-official-announcement/</link>
		<comments>http://www.adoptionintegrity.com/2008/04/04/still-waiting-for-an-official-announcement/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Apr 2008 03:37:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christina</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[The Process]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;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 &#8220;soon.&#8221; And yet, there is no information about this new regulation [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>6</slash:comments>
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		<title>Heeding the Warnings</title>
		<link>http://www.adoptionintegrity.com/2008/03/01/heeding-the-warnings/</link>
		<comments>http://www.adoptionintegrity.com/2008/03/01/heeding-the-warnings/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Mar 2008 19:45:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christina</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[The Process]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is a difficult time for prospective adoptive parents hoping to adopt from Vietnam. Things have been somewhat turbulent for months and now the US &#8211; VN Agreement is about to expire and there are questions about whether it will be re-signed in time to prevent a defacto shutdown of adoptions. People are asking for [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>19</slash:comments>
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		<title>The I600 &#8211; Answers from the Embassy Website</title>
		<link>http://www.adoptionintegrity.com/2008/01/24/the-i600-answers-from-the-embassy-website/</link>
		<comments>http://www.adoptionintegrity.com/2008/01/24/the-i600-answers-from-the-embassy-website/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jan 2008 01:09:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christina</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[The Process]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[US Embassy in Hanoi]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Many of us have questions about the new I600 process &#8211; what it involves and the way applications are being processed. Some of these questions are actually answered on the US Pre-approval of Adoption page on the recently renovated Embassy website. While we are all capable of going to the site and reading the information, sometimes [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Embassy Guidance on I600-related Issue</title>
		<link>http://www.adoptionintegrity.com/2008/01/16/embassy-guidance-on-i600-related-issue/</link>
		<comments>http://www.adoptionintegrity.com/2008/01/16/embassy-guidance-on-i600-related-issue/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jan 2008 21:44:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Administrator</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[The Process]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[US Embassy in Hanoi]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Recently we learned that some families/agencies seem to be experiencing problems with a few of the provinces insisting that families complete their Giving/Receiving ceremonies immediately upon final provincial approval (like within 7 days of notification). Apparently when the agencies inform the provinces that families need to wait on I600 approval from the Embassy, these provinces respond [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>22</slash:comments>
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