Guatemala
Adoption Alert
U.S. DEPARTMENT OF STATE
Bureau of Consular Affairs
Office of Children’s Issues
Special Advisor for Children’s Issues Ambassador Susan Jacobs to Travel to Guatemala
December 7, 2010
On December 6, 2010 the Department of State issued the following media note:
“Special Advisor for Children’s Issues Ambassador Susan Jacobs is visiting Guatemala December 7 to 11 for meetings on intercountry adoption. She will meet with government officials and nongovernmental adoption stakeholders to discuss the status of U.S. citizen adoption cases that have been pending since the suspension of new adoptions in Guatemala in 2007. She will also discuss Guatemala’s efforts to implement new intercountry adoption safeguards that would provide a path toward future adoption processing. “
The media note is at: http://www.state.gov/r/pa/prs/ps/2010/12/152441.htm
http://adoption.state.gov/news/guatemala.html
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