Email History: Haiti Update

Dear Haiti waiting families,

I wanted to share with you the post that I made this morning to the Joint Council Haiti list server.  Ives information about what is being done to bring your children home. I know that this is a difficult time for all of you. My thoughts and prayers are with you.  I feel driven because of you and the love I have for you and your children.

Please let me know if you have any questions.

Chareyl

I want to send out a quick up-date and let you know that Joint Council should have some news on getting all the referred/adoptive children out of Haiti very shortly. There have been lot’s of rumors floating around about how this will be done and when so I have been asked by Joint Council to tell everyone to PLEASE hold tight. 

This morning I received information that the US embassy in Haiti is having orphanages/staff bring children in for Visas.  Although this is true to an extent, we cannot have ALL the orphanages taking their children to the embassy at one time. Joint Council is working hard to secure a safe building with security where all the children can be taken and the USCIS can process paperwork from that location, as I understand it some children will be given Visas and others Humanitarian Parole (although an official announcement has not been made yet). 

So for now, please do not have your orphanage and their staff take children to the Embassy as it is not safe. We should have a safe place to take them very soon.

Let me tell you that Tom and Rebecca have been working tirelessly through the weekend. They have been working with many US and Haitian officials to bring our children home. Besides getting approvals to bring the children out of Haiti they have been working on all the logistics involved; buildings for processing and ways to get the children out of the country, how to get families to their children etc. And on top of that they have been battling rumors and the media.

So again let me deliver their most recent message HOLD TIGHT, we will have news soon.

I personally want to tell Tom and Rebecca and all the volunteers at Joint Council THANK YOU for all that you are doing. I am grateful we have Joint Council to advocate for us.

Please let me know if you have any questions and watch for news from Joint Council.

Chareyl Moyes

Haiti Program Manager