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After months of warnings to PAPs, the State Department has effectively shut down the Nepal adoption program for US citizens. I’m so sorry for all of those caught up in this, either with referrals and awaiting the Orphans First program or without referrals and wondering what to do next…
Joint Statement on Suspension of Processing for New Adoption Cases Base on Abandonment in Nepal
Washington, DC
Following is the text of a joint statement by the Department of State and Department of Homeland Security, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, announcing the suspension of adoptions based on abandonment in Nepal:
In order to protect the rights and interests of certain Nepali children and their families, and of U.S. prospective adoptive parents, the Department of State and U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) have jointly decided to suspend adjudication of new adoption petitions and related visa issuance for children who are described as having been abandoned in Nepal.
The Department of State’s recent interactions with the Government of Nepal and its efforts to review and investigate numerous abandonment cases, including field visits to orphanages and police departments, have demonstrated that documents presented to describe and “prove” the abandonment of children in Nepal are unreliable. Civil documents, such as the children’s birth certificates often include data that has been changed or fabricated. Investigations of children reported to be found abandoned are routinely hindered by the unavailability of officials named in reports of abandonment. Police and orphanage officials often refuse to cooperate with consular officers’ efforts to confirm information by comparing it with official police and orphanage records. In one case, the birth parents were actively searching for a child who had been matched with an American family for adoption. Because the Department of State has concluded that the documentation presented for children reported abandoned in Nepal is unreliable and the general situation of non-cooperation with and even active hindrance of investigations, the U.S. Government can no longer reasonably determine whether a child documented as abandoned qualifies as an orphan. Without reliable documentation, it is not possible for the United States government to process an orphan petition to completion.
To the best of our knowledge, all other countries that had been processing adoption cases from Nepal have stopped accepting new cases due to a lack of confidence that children presented as orphans are actually eligible for intercountry adoption.
The suspension of adjudication of new adoption petitions on behalf of Nepali children reported as found abandoned is effective as of the date of this statement. Any petition filed for a child who has been presented as found abandoned and who was matched with a prospective adoptive parent prior to the date of this announcement, as evidenced by an official referral letter from the Government of Nepal, will continue to be adjudicated on a case-by-case basis and in light of the totality of the evidence available. The Department of State will reach out to prospective adoptive parents who meet these criteria. Petitions that continue to be adjudicated will only be approved if they are supported by reliable evidence. Every effort will be made to process their cases as expeditiously as possible with the best interests of children in mind.
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You can add my blog to your list.
You can add my blog, we adopted a little boy from Nepal in 2005 and are in process for a second child through Sweden (because we are living in Sweden). I also set up a program with New Beginnings out of Mississippi that is running now.
I am dual tracking with China and Nepal and have started a blog for families looking to adopt from Nepal.
Hi. You may add our blog to your list if you’d like.
Hi, we do not mind you adding us to your blog. If it is o.k. we will add yours to ours as well.
I changed my blog address to the address posted above
Thank you so much for doing this… it was a great help to me to begin blogging. Please add me to your list.
Thanks again!
Renae.
Hi! You may add our blog to your Nepal list. We are adopting from Nepal in 2010 and are half-way through the paperwork.
Hi, I just created a blog and found all these so useful when I was starting so I hope that you will add ours to your list. Thank you very much.
Yup, you can add us on if you like. We just got approved today by the agency. Just made it into one of the last 2010 spots. Yeah!
Does anyone know how to get invited to the Journey to our daughter Blog? We are in the process of adopting to Nepal and I would love to correspond with them. They are actually over there right now getting their little girl!
Thanks for any help. I’m new to this blog stuff and I’m totally confused.
Jodi
Please include our website on your list. We have started the process for Nepal adoption and are eager to connect with other families. Have a wonderful holiday season and may all of us bring our children home next year.
Amita and Steven
Thanks for doing this! I found all of these blogs so insightful, encouraging and useful!
You can add our blog to your site as well. We are on the 2009 Nepal list. Our dossier was registered with the Ministry on 12/15/09.
All our best,
Heather and Andrew
Hey there! Just wanted to let you know that we have changed our country to Ethiopia, while our dossier sits in Nepal. So we won’t really be posting on Nepal at this time. So I don’t know if you want to add us to the ethiopian blogs, but that’s the track we’re on now!
We are starting our journey toward our adoption from Nepal. If anyone would like to follow us, please check out the blog: http://bunnerfamily.blogspot.com/
Thanks,
Zack and Lana
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