Please read the linked letter and position paper from JCICS (Joint Council on International Children’s Services). They are calling for assistance from all Adoption Service Providers, Child Advocacy Groups, Potential Adoptive Parents, really anyone involved in International Children’s Services and International Adoption. Here is an excerpt from JCICS’s position paper explaining the purpose of this initiative:
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services’ (USCIS) final regulations, issued in May 2007, state that Potential Adoptive Parents with an approved I-600A may only file for a renewal one time. According to USCIS, families must thereafter ‘start from the beginning’, which in Hague Convention countries, would require the family to file a new I-800 petition. Joint Council maintains that this interpretation o