Expedite Visas for the 80 Families in the Adoption Pipeline
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Oct 11th, 2010Someone from Grand Haven, MI writes:
I worked in the orphanages in India, when my husband was working overseas for a United States Corporation. Any child that can move on to a better home life, better living conditions, going to parents who will love them, cherish them, help them grow is the best thing that can happen. I urge you to move as quickly as possible to get these children to their new families in the United States! -
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Oct 11th, 2010Someone from Tacoma, WA writes:
As you are all aware, on August 6, 2010, the U.S. Embassy in Nepal announced it was suspending the processing of new orphan cases involving Nepali children ?claimed to have been abandoned,? On August 27, 2010, USCIS issued a Policy Memorandum entitle ?Nepal Initiative??? A copy of this memorandum is attached for your review. Essentially, USCIS made a determination to ?indefinitely suspend? the processing of abandonment cases due to the reports from the U.S. Embassy in Kathmandu that the embassy staff has encountered ?inconsistent and unreliable documentation? regarding the reported abandonment of Nepali children for adoption. The suspension is reportedly limited to those cases where orphan status is claimed by way of abandonment. This is troubling in so many different ways: 1. The reported reasons for suspending abandonment cases are inconsistent and unreliable documentation. We are not sure what this means as there have not been reports of falsified documentation or evidence of fraud on the part of governmental officials or orphanage staff. Previously there was one case wherein it was determined that the biological parents came back after a significant period of time and requested the return of the children. That information was not passed onto the Ministry or the adoption agency assisting the family. Other than this case, we have not heard reports specifically identifying fraudulent practices. We do not know if the Embassy is stating that unreliable and inconsistent documentation means fraudulent documentation. One would think that if there was evidence of a system of fraud the Embassy would have identified it. The obvious point here is that even if there was one or more cases wherein the I-604 investigation revealed fraudulent documentation, that is not a reason to ?close the window? on the filing of other abandonment cases. It is fairly common that there is a presumption with Embassy staff that anyone applying for a visa to the USA is being fraudulent. That is common in employment visa application and tourist visa applications. For this reason you see that it is very difficult for a person to receive a tourist visa to come to the USA for a visit. The officers at the Embassy believe that the person will not return to their home country and will over stay their visit into the USA. Regardless of this pre-judgment that visa applications are fraudulent U.S. Embassies around the world continue to accept the filing of visa applications. Furthermore, regardless of actual findings of fraud on visa applications the Embassies continue to receive and process visa applications. USCIS/DOS has not ?closed the window? to those applications as they have now done in Nepal for visa applications for abandoned children. The bottom line here is that the U.S. Embassy has pre-judged all abandonment cases as being fraudulent. This is fundamentally wrong. The system is in place for all visa applications, including I-600 petitions for abanREPORT COMMENTS
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Oct 11th, 2010Someone from Plainfield, IL writes:
Please let me bring my daughter home!REPORT COMMENTS
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Oct 11th, 2010Someone from Flowery Branch, GA writes:
Please help these families..we adopted from Nepal 4 yrs ago and it is such a wonderful blessing to share our home with such a wonderful child. She is our love, our heart. I am so thankful that we were chosen to be given such a gift.REPORT COMMENTS
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Oct 11th, 2010Someone from Seattle, WA writes:
Please allow my neice and all the children who have already been matched come home to their waiting families. It's a sad day when red tape gets in the way of common sense.REPORT COMMENTS
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Oct 11th, 2010Someone from Los Angeles, CA writes:
Having witnessed first-hand one of these couples' devotion to their adoptive daughter, though they have yet to live with her, and having seen and talked with the father fresh off the plane from his 2-week visit to Nepal to meet her for the very first (and so far only) time, I can say with no hesitation that there would be no greater good than to allow these people to unite and form the loving families they crave - and that these children so richly and desperately deserve. And no greater crime than to prevent that from happening based on arbitrary administrative policy and impersonal bureaucratic reasons. Please do the right thing.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelOct 11th, 2010Someone from Florence, SC writes:
Please expedite the process...bring our children home.REPORT COMMENTS
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