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Author Yosef Yacob: ‘USCIS complacency surrounding alleged fraud in exporting Ethiopian children’
From Ethiomedia: Despite the documented facts demonstrating fraud and misrepresentation, the unsettling status quo persists with superficial changes by the USCIS and the Department of State devoid of any effective protocols to ferret out the suspected racketeers in the adoption of Ethiopian children by good intentioned Americans. While both USCIS and Department of State acknowledge [...]
Increased International Adoption calls for the Use of “Searchers” to track Child Histories
From SOS Children’s Villages: Amidst widespread stories of coercion placed on women to give up their babies for adoptions, and even payments and abductions at the hands of brokers procuring adoptees for unwitting parents, more are looking to hire what’s known as an adoption searcher. Adoption searchers are specialized independent researchers working to track down [...]
How Ethiopia’s Adoption Industry Dupes Families and Bullies Activists
From The Atlantic: In 2008, a 38-year old Oklahoma nurse whom I’ll call Kelly adopted an eight-year old girl, “Mary,” from Ethiopia. It was the second adoption for Kelly, following one from Guatemala. She’d sought out a child from Ethiopia in the hopes of avoiding some of the ethical problems of adopting from Guatemala: widespread [...]
Ethiopia: USCIS Stakeholder Meeting on Ethiopian Adoptions
From US Citizenship and Immigration Services: USCIS Stakeholder Meeting on Ethiopian Adoptions As a follow up to the October 28, 2011, Ethiopian Stakeholder call, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) and the U.S. Department of State would like to invite you to attend a stakeholder call on Friday, December 9, 2011 to discuss USCIS’ November [...]
Ethiopia: USCIS publishes notes from October 28th stakeholder meeting
From USCIS: Executive Summary Teleconference on Ethiopian Adoptions Background On October 28, 2011, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) and the Department of State (DOS) hosted a stakeholder engagement to discuss the increased number of adoption petitions (Form I-600, Petition to Classify Orphan as Immediate Relative) that the U.S. Embassy in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, has [...]
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