Yearly Archives: 2015

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Between a rock and a hard place- creative solutions for tricky adoption issues.

Chris Rock (pictured here leaving a court room on Tuesday), isn’t my client, but I wish he was. I also wish people would leave him, his ex-wife and their child alone. Unless you’ve been living under a rock somewhere (ha ha), you’ve heard by now that Chris Rock is the subject of an international adoption […]

By |December 1st, 2015|The Adoption Blog|Comments Off on Between a rock and a hard place- creative solutions for tricky adoption issues.

Plan de Acción- Secuestro Parental Internacional!!

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 […]

By |September 4th, 2015|Immigration Blog|Comments Off on Plan de Acción- Secuestro Parental Internacional!!

Action plan- International Parental Abduction

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 […]

By |August 20th, 2015|Immigration Blog|Comments Off on Action plan- International Parental Abduction

A tale of two Shayma’as – adoptions from Gaza.

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 […]

By |August 4th, 2015|The Adoption Blog|Comments Off on A tale of two Shayma’as – adoptions from Gaza.

Help! I received a Request for Evidence on my Family Petition for an Adopted Child from a Hague Country!

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 […]

By |August 4th, 2015|The Adoption Blog|Comments Off on Help! I received a Request for Evidence on my Family Petition for an Adopted Child from a Hague Country!

Huge Money Saving tip, The Punjab Destitute and Neglected Children Act and the UAA!

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 […]

By |June 5th, 2015|The Adoption Blog|Comments Off on Huge Money Saving tip, The Punjab Destitute and Neglected Children Act and the UAA!

Not sure if you want to adopt from a Muslim country? Read this!

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 […]

By |June 5th, 2015|The Adoption Blog|Comments Off on Not sure if you want to adopt from a Muslim country? Read this!

Is adoption from Gaza possible.

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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Permutations, combinations and Non-Hague Adoptions. Does the sequence matter?

When I was in high school, I strongly felt that all the mathematics I was learning were completely useless and would never be applied to my life. Before we discuss adoptions at all, let’s go back to St. Louis School in Kiltimagh, Ireland where I learned about permutations, combinations and sequences.  My teacher, Mrs. Groarke […]

By |June 5th, 2015|The Adoption Blog|Comments Off on Permutations, combinations and Non-Hague Adoptions. Does the sequence matter?

How much is enough? Emigration to the United States based on business and investment.

There is one thing everyone wants to know when considering emigration to the United States though business or investment- how much is all of this going to cost me?  The answer is that it depends on what you want to do. Let’s take a quick look at the options starting with the least expensive and […]

By |June 5th, 2015|Immigration Blog|Comments Off on How much is enough? Emigration to the United States based on business and investment.