A Prayer on the Wind: Another Push

Friday, December 17, 2010

Another Push

In light of the recent phone call with USCIS and DOS, where they revealed, among other things, that all investigations out of Kathmandu are done, and NO CASES OF FRAUD have been found, there is another push to get us on the radar of Congress and get us home. Please visit They Wait Nepal and sign the petition, yet again!

I am in my own push to get my RFE submitted. Spent 6 hours on it yesterday, and have another 2 or so this morning to finish it up and get it on a plane to Delhi so it can arrive on someones desk Monday morning. I'm sending the original docs from here by following the PDF my lawyer in the States created. I can overnight to Delhi, and it takes her about a week from the US. So it's up to me to assemble it. Major time consuming...everything in both Nepalese and English, all these Exhibits, over 150 pages...Get this... I spent $130 in printing yesterday... yep, loco.

Amidst all this I decided to get a mild bout of food poisoning and was vomiting so hard that I had drainage from my sinus cavities for the next 2 hours. Insane. I scared my kid, but we used it as an opportunity to drive home how important is not to get the water from the tap in your mouth cause 'it makes you sick!' Mommy sick? Mommy bad pani? Mommy pani mouth? (pani is Nepalese for water). The vomiting wasn't what freaked him out, it was the fact that for about 2 hours I could barely stand up and had to crawl or lie down. Thank God once again, I had help. DeeDee took are of him for me while I pulled it together. Now I'm up in the middle of the night with stomach cramps and anxiety. Nice.

Meanwhile back in L-town there is a Benefit Concert going on for me TONIGHT!!! Hope you were able to go!!! It's going to be such a blast. Massive love went into that planning and I am so touched and appreciative. I am thinking we can use the proceeds to buy Pukar a plane ticket HOME with any luck. USCIS plans to give responses to RFE's in 2-weeks time. We'll see!

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THE US GOVT WAS WRONG TO SHUT DOWN ADOPTIONS. HOW DID THIS HAPPEN?

There were 55 families stuck in the Nepal Pipeline because the US Government had 'suspicions' of 'fraud' and 'serious irregularites' based on a poorly conducted 82-day investigation of 62 orphan cases. That's 1 1/2 days per case. Their findings are rampant with errors, cultural insensitivities and blatant incompetence.

IN THE END, EVERY CHILD WAS ABLE TO GO HOME WITH THEIR FAMILY BECAUSE NOT A SINGLE SHRED OF FRAUD WAS FOUND. NOTHING. ZERO.

THE US WAS WRONG.

Children spent an average of 200 extra days languishing in orphanages, and cost families an average of 25K extra dollars for no good reason.

Both Ends Burning, a non-profit international adoption advocacy group has published an investigative report based on a the findings in an extensive review of the 55 investigations US parents were forced to make to prove the orphan status of their children. They studied over 3,000 pages that were compiled by lawyers and private investigators. Their discoveries are shocking. See the full report by cutting a pasting this link: https://bothendsburning.org/help-out/current-initiatives/re-open-nepal/

On June 6, 2014 we travelled to Washington DC along with many other families and Both Ends Burning to meet with our Senators and Congressman and women. Help us keep the momentum by signing our petition: http://www.petition2congress.com/15574/lift-suspension-adoptions-from-nepal/

We are asking our Senators and Representatives to follow-up with these actions:

1. Sponsor a Congressional Resolution to open re-open Nepal for international adoptions

2. Call for a Congressional Hearing to Investigate the closure of Nepal

3. Enter a floor speech on behalf of us and our children to correct the record

Read the blog notes dated June 13, 2014 to see all the videos, news coverage and links to the report. There is also links to the news below in "Jenni in the News".

ABOUT NEPAL:

The status of women is low in the Nepali society, contributing to frequent abuse and abandonment of wives and children. More complicated reasons for abandonment of children include being unwed, the caste system, poverty, the lack of a social system, unequal access to education, and religion. There are no social services and the per capita income of the average household is less than $350 a year.

With adoptions halted, and orphanages either closed or full to capacity, there is nowhere for these abandoned children to go. Some live on the street, many others die.

I have travelled extensively all over the world but never been to a country where the need is so great. With a total population of 28 million people, Nepal is home to approximately one million orphans.