Expedite Visas for the 80 Families in the Adoption Pipeline
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Oct 18th, 2010Someone from Morrison, CO writes:
I have a friend who adopted an adorable daughter from Nepal -please help other families to become as happy as she is!Oct 18th, 2010Someone from Bridgeport, CT writes:
Don't leave those in the pipeline hanging!REPORT COMMENTS
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Other countries should be proud that Americans want to adopt their needy children and be willing to give them great homes and paths in life that not many can achieve.REPORT COMMENTS
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We should not stand in the way of children having better lives with loving parents.REPORT COMMENTS
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Please help parents and children by expediting this process!REPORT COMMENTS
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As my congressman you must notice take notice of this issue!REPORT COMMENTS
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It seems only right that persons already involved with the process should be allowed to follow it through to completion.REPORT COMMENTS
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Oct 18th, 2010Someone from Needham Heights, MA writes:
This is a reply to the Oct.13 Message from Ambassador DeLisi which I sent to Sen. Scott Brown's office a few days ago. If you read it closely you will note that while he says he wants the investigations and adjudications expedited and has a deep concern for the familes affected, he makes no mention of the fact that not a single case in the pipeline has been deemed 'clearly approvable' and received an entry visa. ALL of the I-600s which have been processed to date have been sent on to Delhi. Obviously, having as a primary goal "the most rapid possible conclusion of this process" does not bode well for us. There are three points to be made here: 1. The stated aim of "making every effort to verify the origins of the children so that we can all know that we have met our obligations to them" is actually at the heart of the matter. It is not the perogative of the United States to verify the origins of the children. That belongs solely to Nepal. The only obligation the United States has to these children is to confirm that they are in fact orphans (ie., no parents to care for them - per USCIS definition) and to provide them with the homes of good American families who have been matched with them. To demand (as they do) that an eyewitness come forward to identify and confirm each specific child - often after years of living in an orphanage - and that without such eyewitness all supporting documents are treated as spurious, is the height of arrogance. 2. The comment "the challenges many parents face are compounded by the Government of Nepal's sixty day window for completing the process" is an attempt to place blame on Nepal for what is an American-engineered problem. The 60-day window referred to is the grace period Nepal grants to cover what should normally take 7 days to complete. In real terms, Nepal allows 8-9 weeks to complete the adoption process in-country which normally spans maybe 2-3 weeks (making travel arrangements, visiting the orphan in the orphanage, and making an appointment at the Ministry of Women, Children, and Social Welfare (MWCSW) to complete the Adoption Decree). This grace period is more than adequate for this purpose. It is only by the State Department (DOS) wrongly trying to interpose their very lengthy I-604 investigation into this window that they claim Nepal has not provided sufficient time. The DOS clouds the issue by their constant urging to the prospective adoptive parents (PAP) to file the I-600 - which automatically kicks-off the I-604 investigation - as soon as possible, even before receiving a Nepali Travel Approval (TA). This action actually generates extreme anxiety in the PAPs because they do not know when Nepal, which naturally acts independently of the US, will issue a TA that starts this Nepali 60 day window. By doing this the DOS maneuvers the PAPs in two different ways: 1. the lengthy I-604 process will likely exhaust the Nepali 60 day window which would then disqualify the parREPORT COMMENTS
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