Adoptions from Vietnam to the United States Will Not Resume Without a New Bilateral Agreement – Action Taken to Establish Safeguards that Protect Children and Families WASHINGTON – United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) and the Department of State (DOS) issued a joint statement with the government of Vietnam announcing that the processing of new adoption cases will not …
Category: PEAR Calls to Action
UPDATE: Call to Action Vietnam – USCIS Warning
UPDATE: Call to Action Vietnam On Friday, April 25, 2008, the US Embassy in Hanoi took the unprecedented step of releasing a detailed “Summary of Irregularities in Adoptions in Vietnam” about the adoption corruption their recent investigations uncovered in Vietnam. The text of this summary can be found at: http://vietnam.usembassy.gov/irreg_adoptions042508.html This summary followed an earlier warning not initiate adoptions from …
UPDATE: Call to Action Vietnam – USCIS Warning
The US Embassy in Hanoi has issued the following warning for adoption from Vietnam: ADOPTED CHILDREN IMMIGRANT VISA UNIT Warning Concerning Adoptions in Vietnam April 2008The Department of State continues to urge prospective adoptive parents and adoption service providers not to initiate new adoptions from Vietnam at this time. The 2005 Memorandum of Agreement, required by Vietnamese law to authorize …
PEAR Supports Ethica’s Letter to the VN Adoption Community
Below is a letter from Linh Song, Executive Director of Ethica. PEAR supports Ethica’s call for input from the VN adoption community and encourages all those interested in VN adoption and adoption reform to participate by writing your comments to Ethica. PEAR’s Comments on the JCICS Proposed Standards of Practice were submitted to JCICS on December 10, 2007. Copies of …
Update on PEAR’s Call to Action: Vietnam
In early December, JCICS requested that PEAR put together a list of organizations and individuals we felt JCICS should contact for input on their proposed Standards of Practice for Vietnam Adoptions. We submitted the following list to JCICS on December 6: Vietnam AP groups:APV (Adoptive Parents Vietnam Yahoo group) and ownersRateYourVietnamAdoptionAgency Yahoo Group and ownersFCVN (Families with Children from Vietnam)Nicki …