I am removing this information from the side bar. It really made it long to scroll down to the bottom. I wanted to keep it though just in case I need to refer to it in the future.
October 27, 2008 Vietnam and US postpon upcoming meeting which was initially planned to begin in the next few weeks
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October 20, 2008 US expresses willingness to renegotiate a new bilateral agreement with Vietnam
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September 5, 2008 The Vietnamese government appoints an official to oversee a renewal between the US and VN for a new bilateral agreement
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September 1, 2008 Expiration of Bilateral Agreement between Vietnam & US.
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July 30, 2008 A briefing in DC to discuss VN and Guatamala adoption situations in an effort to keep adoptions going in both countries.
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July 28, 2008 In VN news, the Assembly has moved to support a bid to sign the Hague Convention. An official vote for this to be held before the end of the year. This would removed adoption operations from the individual providences to a central government office under the Minister of Justice.
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July 18, 2008 The State Department outlines what constitutes an official match. Anyone with an official match will be allowed to complete their adoptions. Vietnam has finally admitted to uncovering wrongdoing and have made three arrests in one providence for baby buying.
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July 9, 2008 The letter to C. Rice received the signatures of 92 House Representatives and 57 Senators. It is a great step towards congressional support to renew the agreement with VN.
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July 1, 2008 Vietnam is no longer matching children with dossiers
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June 26, 2008 President Bush meets with the Prime Minister of Vietnam to encourage continuing adoptions. PM responded by saying that they plan to become Hague as quickly as possible.
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April 28, 2008 VN announces on July 1, 2008 will end matches of dossiers with children
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April 25, 2008 VN defines how adoptions will come to an end on Sept 1, 2008
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April 1, 2008 US becomes a Hague Country
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March 7, 2008 Vietnam entertains idea of continuing adoptions with Hague agencies and requests a list of those agencies
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March 3, 2008 Vietnam presented with Joint Councils standards of practices and is well received
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March 3, 2008 Joint Council list agencies willing to work with their proposed "Vietnam adoption standardized practices"(our agency is on this list)
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March 1, 2008 Letter to renew bilateral agreement deadline passed and not submitted by US
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February 29, 2008 Hague agencies list made public
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February 2008 The letter from the JCICS to aid in making adoption practices more "transparent" is ready and will be referred to as the Vietnam Adoption Standardization of Practices
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January 2008 Department of State issues a friendly warning to families in process that a renewal may not occur for Aug.2008
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November 2007 Meeting in DC to discuss weaknesses in system and state a timeline for improvements to occur
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Great to hear that we have moved up one. Hopefully there will be more and more in the coming months! Thanks for the update!
Jayme
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