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Guatemala: USDOS Adoption Notice – Guatemala Update
From the US Department of State: Guatemala May 14, 2012 Notice: Guatemala Update This Adoption Notice is a follow up to the Notice of December 12, 2011. Universal List In March 2012, after months of meetings to gather information, U.S. officials presented a list of known pending cases to Guatemalan officials. This list is a [...]
Guatemala: US refuses to return snatched girl
From the Huffington Post: A Guatemalan official says the U.S. government has said it won’t return a girl adopted after being snatched from her Guatemalan mother in 2006, because the two countries had not signed the Hague Abduction Convention at the time. Guatemala’s Foreign Relations Ministry quotes the U.S. State Department as saying the two [...]
Guatemala: President to speed up 350 US adoptions
From Politico: Guatemala’s president says he’s willing to speed up 350 adoptions by U.S. couples that were in process before his Central American nation suspended adoptions by foreigners in 2007 following allegations of fraud and baby theft.President Otto Perez Molina said Wednesday he hopes to resolve those cases after meeting with Sen. Mary Landrieu. The [...]
Adoption Illegalities in Guatemala: What the U.S. Government Knew—And What Was Said and Done
From The Schuster Institute for Investigative Journalism: For the first time, the public is given access to revealing information written in cables about international adoption that traveled between the U.S. Embassy in Guatemala and U.S. Department of State from 1987 until 2010. These cables document the ambiguous moral and legal terrain that U.S. officials navigated amid their awareness of [...]
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 [...]
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