Haiti Family Program Update
March 9, 2015
Dear Families,
We hope you are doing well and hopefully getting some warmer weather! We are all ready for spring!
Things continue to move along in Haiti at a slow pace but we were excited to receive an official referral from IBESR for a family at the end of February of an older child from MDA. The family’s dossier had been registered with IBESR for a year. The family is making plans now to travel to Haiti for the required two week bonding period time. Our other two families that had received official referrals from IBESR in September 2014 have completed their adoption in the Haitian court system and are waiting now for the final approval from US embassy so they can return to the Haiti for the Embassy process and visas for the children.
We are hopeful that IBESR will continue to process cases that have been registered for some time and provide referrals to families.
We want to remind everyone to keep an eye on your immigration approval and make sure you keep that current. If you are in the process of renewing your immigration approval, please make sure that when you receive your notice extending approval that you make a photocopy of the approval letter from USCIS, attach an affidavit that you sign and have notarized and then translated into French. Please send this to your program coordinator as soon as you have it so that they can submit to IBESR to update your file.
Also, Silvia and Daniel recently signed the new protocol for adoptions in Haiti allowing our agency to continue assisting families with adoptions from Haiti. There have been a few document changes to the Haiti dossier for families submitting dossiers. If you have not yet submitted your dossier to Haiti, you will need to follow the new dossier guidelines. Your program coordinator will be in touch regarding the changes that will apply to you.
If you have any questions about this update, feel free to contact your program coordinator.
Thanks,
Tania Griasnow
Angela Jackson
Carolina Adoption Services
