Country specific adoption info: Ethiopia

The Government has published a new alert and notice regarding Ethiopian adoptions. Please see their page for complete details. http://adoption.state.gov/country_information/country_specific_alerts_notices.php?alert_notice_type=notices&alert_notice_file=ethiopia_14

The basic contents are:
U.S. non-immigrant and immigrant visa application fees have changed
Escort Cases
Entry Visas
Screening Backgrounds
Expedited Processing
Processing of the Not Clearly Approvable (NCA) cases
Police and birth relative interviews as part of the Form I-604 investigation
Pre-Adoption Immigration Review

General Discussion - Trends in the Ethiopian adoption.

1. A rise in the number of abandonment's vs. relinquishment's.
2. Groups of children being relinquished from the same community at the same time.
3. Adoption contracts being signed before the child is relinquished.

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This is a really information packed notice. Worth the read to understand how things are going right now.