I googled “Adopt Muslim Family Member” today out of curiosity. There’s really not much out there on this topic. The State Department even goes so far as to say that it’s simply never done. But my experience is different. I have often seen a Muslim couple turn to their family for help when they have […]
Like most other problems, it all started with the British. Back in 1838, Afghanistan was minding its own business. I imagine everyone drinking tea, children fly kites and people calling each other “Jan.” Then Britain invaded. After that came the Indians, then the British again, then the Soviets, the Mujahedeen, the Taliban, the US, […]
Busqué en Google “secuestro parental internacional” hoy y encontré todo tipo de grandes definiciones de lo que es. He aquí un ejemplo “El que quita a un niño de los Estados Unidos, o intenta hacerlo, o retiene a un niño (que ha estado en los Estados Unidos) fuera de los Estados Unidos con la intención […]
I googled “International parental abduction” today and I found all kinds of great definitions of what it is. Here’s an example “Whoever removes a child from the United States, or attempts to do so, or retains a child (who has been in the United States) outside the United States with intent to obstruct the lawful […]
About this time last year, 3-day-old Shayma’a al-Sheikh Ali was admitted to Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, in the northern Gaza Strip. She was a premature baby girl whose parents died in an air strike. A doctor at the hospital where the infant is being treated said: “The mother and father were killed. The pregnant […]
The nice thing about the family petition is that the adoptive parent is not required to prove that the child they seek to adopt is an orphan. Also, the I-130 family petition can also be a good way to avoid the often laborious I-800 process. That said, the I-130 for an adopted child from a Hague […]
In 2004, the State of Punjab enacted a very interesting piece of legislation The Punjab Destitute And Neglected Children Act 2004; provides for the creation of two government bodies (a court and a bureau) with the specific purpose of overseeing neglected and abandoned in the state of Punjab.
The bureau, is a government body that has authority to do all […]
A couple of years ago, I was contacted by a Pakistani American who was trying to get an immigrant visa for an orphaned baby. The baby had been found outside in the freezing cold in January of 2012 in the Hindu Kush Mountains. Only God knows how she survived. After the baby came home to […]
Is adoption possible from Gaza? Gaza’s youngest Orphan: Both parents die in air strike, baby delivered by c- section.
I read a piece in an Irish newspaper today about a baby girl in Gaza who has been born via emergency c-section after her parents had been killed in an air strike. I’ve posted the article and […]
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