Posted in Advocacy, Ethics, In The News, The Process on May 22nd, 2008 No Comments »
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 [...]
Posted in Ethics, The Process on Apr 7th, 2008 47 Comments »
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 [...]
Posted in The Process on Apr 4th, 2008 6 Comments »
It’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 “soon.” And yet, there is no information about this new regulation [...]
Posted in The Process, Tools & Resources on Mar 1st, 2008 19 Comments »
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 – 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 [...]
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