Monday, January 18, 2010

Email History: Haiti - USCIS Requested Documents

Dear Waiting families,
I just received the below notice from Joint Council , Please send the requested documents to USCIS immediately! Things are moving very rapidly so it is urgent that you prepare the appropriate documentation and get it sent. I would also like you to send me and email telling me that you have completed this.
Let me know if you have any questions.
With care,
Chareyl

Chareyl Moyes
Haiti Program Manager











Document Request for Pending Haitian Adoption Cases

January 18, 2010


DHS’ U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) has set up a special e-mail box Haitian.adoptions@dhs.gov to receive scanned documentation on pending Haitian adoptee orphans.  If you have already sent documentation to askci@state.gov , it will be forwarded to USCIS on your behalf.

USCIS requests that all communications from prospective adoptive parents and adoption service providers should be formatted as follows:
· Subject line: LAST NAME, First name of the adopting parent, and USCIS case number and NVC case number, if  available
· If you are adopting more than one child, please send separate e-mails for each child
· Include the name, DOB, gender of the child, and the current location of the child in Haiti
· Include any contact information for the child’s current whereabouts
· Please include a recent photograph of the child
· Attachments: please limit attachments to 10 megabytes per e-mail message.  If necessary, split your communica­tion into more than one message, and indicate in the subject line the total number of e-mails and the message num­ber  (i.e. “1 of 2”)

The following case documents may be useful to USCIS;
· Full and final Haitian adoption decree
· GOH Custody grant to prospective adoptive parents for emigration and adoption OR
· Secondary evidence of either of the adoption or custody decree
· Proof of travel by the prospective adoptive parents to Haiti to visit the child
· Photos of the child and prospective adoptive parents together
· ASP “Acceptance of Referral” letter signed by the prospective adoptive parents
· IBESR approval
· Legal relinquishment or award of custody to the Haitian orphanage 
· Secondary evidence of the above (e.g. e-mail correspondence, copies, ASP correspondence)

Updated information will be provided on www.adoption.state.gov as it becomes available. 

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