Haiti Family Program Update
April 2, 2015
Dear
Families,
Happy
spring! It is so nice to see the
flowers blooming and the weather getting warmer.
Just a short
update on a few things happening in Haiti
1)
According to the new protocol regulations of IBESR, post
adoption reports will now be required at the following intervals and sent with
translations to IBESR. IBESR is
now requiring 9 reports over an eight year period unless the child reaches age
of maturity before the 8th year (age 18). These reports are as follows:
·
Social worker written reports at 6 months, 1
year, 2 years
·
Reports at 3 year, 4 year, 5 year, 6 year, 7
year, and 8 year which may be completed by the family and submitted to their
agency to send to Haiti
·
Each report in addition to either the social
work written/family written report must also include a medical report and
report from school (if child is school age) along with photos of the child with
adoptive family
·
Each report must be translated into French. Families will have the reports
translated into French as with their dossier and sent to CAS to submit to
Haiti.
·
These are the required country reports going
forward for families adopting from Haiti.
Families will receive specific instructions from our post adoption
department once they have arrived home with their child/children.
2)
Effective immediately, families submitting
dossiers to IBESR will be required to fully authenticate six documents instead
of the previous four. The documents which must be fully authenticated are
psychological evaluations on both adoptive parents, home study, powers of
attorney, letter of introduction to IBESR, medical evaluations with lab results
attached and the USCIS approval letter.
3)
According to the new quota established by IBESR,
our agency is able to submit 12 dossiers between October 2014 and September
2015 for regular, non-special needs adoptions and 5 additional dossiers during
this same time frame for families open to special needs adoptions defined as
children older than age 6, sibling group adoptions, or children with medical
special needs. We are closely
monitoring the number of families in the program to ensure that as we receive
dossiers we can submit them without delay to Haiti.
4)
For those families who have registered dossiers
with IBESR, our agency representatives in Haiti check with IBESR on a weekly
basis to see if any registered families have received a match. IBESR continues to move slowly with the
official matching process and have indicated they wish to clear up the backlog
of dossiers submitted prior to October 2014 when the new regulations took
effect before moving forward with applications submitted after October 2014. We continue to anticipate that
once your dossier is registered with IBESR the wait time for a proposed
referral is between 12-24 months.
The last three CAS families that received matches each waited between
12-13 months from registration of dossier at IBESR. Those families who are open to older children/sibling groups
may receive matches sooner due to the delay with IBESR and the children at the
crèches getting older.
Please feel
free to contact us if you have questions about this month’s update.
Tania
Griasnow
Angela
Jackson
