Expedite Visas for the 80 Families in the Adoption Pipeline
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Please help bring these children home!Oct 11th, 2010Someone from Charlotte, NC signed.
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I have written through several channels about this before. As an adoptive parent I understand the desire of the US government to assure that these children are, in fact, truly free to be adopted. Yet this is a case in which the desire to avoid harm is actually causing great harm. Please, please. Expedite these adoptions.REPORT COMMENTS
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Oct 11th, 2010Someone from Freeport, NY writes:
Please let my new granddaughter come home. She?s two and a half years old and has been living in an orphanage in Nepal since she was two month of age. Her new mother is my daughter, a woman of great courage and nurturing compassion. The new obstructionist policies of the United States Department of State denying visas to newly adopted Nepalese orphans have stranded eighty American families in a limbo of heartless U.S-government abandonment. That policy, declaring all eighty of these infants and toddlers? status as not adoptable because the children are victims of child trafficking, is so very un-American. To be charged guilty until proven innocent, (of fraud, child trafficking, stolen and sold human merchandise), is a cruel and heartless modern rendition of the McCarthyism witch hunt of know nothing, suspect everything. That policy, instigated and supported by the Department of State and the United States Citizenship & Immigrations Services, and the United States Department of Homeland Security, has been implemented with no thought to the impact it will have on eighty U.S. families whose adopted Nepali children have already been approved by the government of Nepal as lawfully available for adoption. Over the years, hundreds of Nepali children have been adopted by American families, and visas were automatically and immediately issued to allow every one of those children to enter the United States. If the Federal government of the United States of America now feels the need to close any further adoptions, surely such a policy should be implemented AFTER the eighty families who have already been matched with a child have brought those beloved children home. These eighty newly adoptive parents have gone through two years of investigation to prove themselves worthy of adopting. Two years of repeated home studies, fingerprinting, criminal investigation, medical exams, social and psychological competence tests, establishing financial sufficiency, etc., etc. Each family has spent thousands and thousands of dollars hiring adoption agencies and adoption attorneys, both here and abroad. Nursery rooms have been furnished and decorated, families have rallied round dreams of new little lives in their midst. The wrenching destruction of dreams, based on guilty until proven innocent, is not the stuff of American character and integrity and opting for the greater good. That new policy requires eyewitness confirmation as substantial corroborating evidence that the child was indeed found, abandoned and alone, on the streets of Nepal. And though every staff member of every one of these eighty kids? orphanages is ready, willing and able to confirm that the child has, since infancy, been living in the orphanage, the United States government insists that that?s not enough evidence. The orphanages can produce original signed and dated documents of orphanage admission forms, intake medical exams, and photographs of the chiREPORT COMMENTS
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