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 …
Category: Vietnam
Have a Heart – Support Ethica’s “Operation Identity”
In honor of Valentine’s Day, PEAR is asking the adoptive family community to support and assist in Ethica’s Operation Identity: Cooperating to Protect the Identity of Vietnamese Orphans. Identifying information is extremely important to adopted persons, it is important to all persons. As adoptive parents and prospective adoptive parents, it is our duty to preserve and protect our child’s identity. …
On Monday, January 28, the DOS issued a warning adoptions from Vietnam: (travel.state.gov/family/adoption/intercountry/intercountry_3939.html) Ethica then published their statement about the status of adoption from Vietnam. (http://www.ethicanet.org/item.php?recordid=vietnam&pagestyle=default). PEAR commends and fully supports both the DOS and Ethica for their efforts to oversee that adoptions between the US and Vietnam are done in an ethical and transparent manner. We are in agreement …
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 …