An agency reports that the CCAA will be closed for the entire month of August. Other agencies are still reporting they will not close. There is nothing (nada, zilch) out there about a cut off date. As for the question about those who are with an agency that is not accredited, supposedly those agencies should [...]

The State Department has published a pdf explaining how transition cases will be handled. You can download it here: travel.state.gov/pdf/AdoptionFactSheet_TransitionCases4-09-2008.pdf In a nutshell, if your I-600A was approved before April 1, 2008, and if you keep extending it without letting it expire, then your adoption will be handled as a non-Convention adoption. They are clear [...]

The Department of State has issued a list of agencies accredited to work under the Hague. The list can be found here: travel.state.gov/family/adoption/convention/convention_4169.html Hopefully everyone will find their agency on this list. If you don’t find them, then I’d say a phone call to them on Monday will probably be in order.

The general consensus seems to be that if you already have an active I-171H then your adoption will be under the pre-Hague rules. But, you must not let your I-171H expire before getting a new one. The following comes from the U.S. State Department 4. What happens to a case that is in process when [...]

On Friday November 16, 2007 President Bush signed the final instrument of ratification for the Hague Convention. You can read a little more about this here: http://www.state.gov/r/pa/prs/ps/2007/nov/95469.htm Here are some timelines: December 12, 2007 – The Department of State will deposit the Instrument of Ratification. March 12, 2008 – The Accrediting Entities (Colorado & COA) [...]

There are some pdf’s on the Hague Permanent Bureau’s site that detail their Work in Progress. If you’d like to read through them, it’s the first two PDF’s here. One of the things that jumped out was a concern about undue pressure on States of origin. One of the things mentioned was that this pressure [...]