Posted in In The News, US Department of State on Mar 14th, 2011 No Comments »
From the Straits Times… A US ENVOY will head this week to Vietnam and Cambodia to look at ways to resume adoptions, which have been suspended due to concerns over child trafficking, the State Department said on Monday. Susan Jacobs, the special US adviser on children’s issues, will head on Wednesday to the South-east Asian [...]
Posted in Chosing An Agency, US Department of State, US Embassy in Hanoi on Sep 22nd, 2010 3 Comments »
Document Number: 2007HANOI01820 From: American Embassy in Hanoi To: Secretary of State Date: October 2007 Subject: Vietnam September Adoption Issues Cable {approximately half of this document is redacted} Summary: During the month of September post [US Embassy in Hanoi] issued 65 adoption related immigrant visas. Post also significantly expanded its field verification of adoption cases. [...]
Posted in Experiences, In The News, Tools & Resources, US Department of State, US Embassy in Hanoi on Sep 22nd, 2010 2 Comments »
As we mentioned last week, EJ Graff and the Schuster Institute for Investigative Journalism obtained hundreds of pages of documentation relating to Vietnam adoptions from the U.S. government through a Freedom of Information Act request. All of these documents are available at their website for anyone to view, and we highly recommend doing so. In [...]
Posted in Ethics, Experiences, In The News, Tools & Resources, US Department of State, US Embassy in Hanoi on Sep 13th, 2010 9 Comments »
E. J. Graff’s article, Anatomy of an Adoption Crisis, online today at ForeignPolicy.com, pulls back the veil to reveal details and information only previously hinted at and corruption beyond what many of us could have imagined. … inside their fog of secrecy, the faceless bureaucrats were also agonizing about the well-being of the children and [...]
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