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USCIS Public Engagement: “Grandfathered” Adoptions Engagement
From U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services: Dear Stakeholder, USCIS invites interested parties to participate in a national stakeholder teleconference on Tuesday, January 31, 2012 @ 2:00 PM EDT. The purpose of this engagement is to discuss changes to the process of “grandfathering” certain adoption cases as orphan cases when the U.S. and another country [...]
International Adoption or Child Trafficking? (Book review of Finding Fernanda)
From The American Prospect: Between 1998 and 2008, nearly 30,000 Guatemalan-born children (mostly infants and toddlers) were adopted by U.S. parents. In some years, that meant that an astonishing 1 out of 100 children born in Guatemala was adopted by an American family. For most of that time, everyone but the prospective adoptive parents knew—or [...]
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 [...]
Guatemala: USDOS Adoption Notice – Processing Plan for CNA Cases
From the US Department of State: Guatemala December 12, 2011 Notice: Processing Plan for CNA cases This Adoption Notice is a follow up to the Notice of September 27, 2011. The Government of Guatemala’s Consejo Nacional de Adopciones (CNA) has agreed to a process for certain adoption applications pending under the CNA’s processing authority. The [...]
Exposing Corruption in International Adoption
From Philanthropy.com: Tiny Spark is new podcast on the business of doing good. The first installment takes a look at corruption in international adoption and how it has caused problems despite the generous impulses of many parents. Amy Costello, a freelance reporter and radio producer, hosts and produces the program. In the past decade, American [...]
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