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. [...]
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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 [...]
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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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After posting the story yesterday about the Vietnamese Ruc people and their complaints about how they were deceived into relinquishing their children for adoption, I remembered where I had read this story before. Anthropologist Peter Bille Larsen wrote an extensive article about their case back in May 2008. In this article, I point raise to [...]
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