Posted in The Process on Oct 11th, 2007 10 Comments »
[Edited 10/24 to Add: Please see the Clarification from the US embassy for details on the new process. I600s will NOT be mailed to your local USCIS office, but ONLY to the USCIS in Ho Chi Minh City.]
In the near future the Embassy plans to shift from in-country I-600 processing to filing of the I-600 Petition [...]
Posted in Chosing An Agency, The Process on Aug 27th, 2007 9 Comments »
The Prospective Adoptive Parent - Adoption Agency relationship is an odd mix of personal and professional. It starts out the way most relationships do - both parties putting on their best faces, wooing one another. Agencies send out glossy brochures with photos of adorable tiny babies. They cheerfully return phone calls and emails quickly. PAP’s [...]
Posted in Chosing An Agency, Ethics, The Process on Aug 6th, 2007 31 Comments »
Contributed by Jena
Recently on the two list serves that I belong to, people have been asking the question, “what are the reputable/ethical agencies that still allow you to select gender and don’t have super long wait times?” The short answer, in my opinion, is NONE. Many of the well established reputable agencies are either not [...]
Posted in Fees, The Process on Jun 7th, 2007 7 Comments »
Article 17 sections 1-2 of the US-VN Agreement Regarding Cooperation on the Adoption of Children
As you can see from the above excerpt, when the Final Agreement (aka “Memorandum of Understanding”) was signed in June 2005, part of the agreement included Vietnam publicly posting a list of required fees. Unfortunately, this has yet to happen. [...]
Posted in Chosing An Agency, The Process on May 29th, 2007 4 Comments »
Recently Jennifer G left a comment about soft referrals. She said:
“According to my agency, some agencies make “soft” referrals of babies/children. That is, they offer referrals before the babies’ dossiers have been officially approved. They say this approval process normally takes four months from the time a baby is found orphaned or abandoned (this period [...]
Posted in Ethics, The Process on May 16th, 2007 8 Comments »
Back in 2000-2001 when we decided to adopt internationally, we chose China for all the reasons thousands of people adopt from China every year … the one child policy resulting in thousands of baby girls waiting in orphanges, the streamlined, centralized, time-tested process, etc. Then as the wait to referral stretched to 14 months just [...]
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