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USCIS ANNOUNCES ADOPTION POLICY FOR HAGUE TRANSITION CASES

According to a USCIS Press Release:  “U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced today that prospective adoptive parents already in the process of adopting a child from a country that has implemented the Hague Convention on Protection of Children and Co-operation in Respect of Intercountry Adoption (Hague Adoption Convention) who filed a Form I-600A, Application for Advance Processing of Orphan Petition, prior to April 1, 2008, and who have received the one time no-charge extension, may file one additional Form I-600A, and continue to proceed with their intercountry adoption through the “orphan” process.  The new Form I-600A must be filed before the current approval expires, and only if the prospective adoptive parents have not yet filed the corresponding Form I-600, Petition to Classify Orphan as an Immediate Relative.”

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ADOPTIONS FROM VIETNAM TO THE U.S. WILL NOT RESUME WITHOUT A NEW BILATERAL AGREEMENT

According to a USCIS Press Release:  “United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) and the Department of State (DOS) issued a joint statement with the government of

Vietnam announcing that the processing of new adoption cases will not resume until both countries sign a new bilateral agreement.”The agency has also released a related FAQ.

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