From the United States Immigration Support:
The Certificate of US Citizenship (form N-560 or N-561) is a document issued by the United States government as proof of U.S. citizenship. Individuals who are eligible to apply for the United States Certificate of Citizenship include those who obtained U.S. citizenship while residing in the United States or individuals who were born outside the United States to U.S. citizens. Specific details of eligibility include:
■ Your parents are U.S. citizens, but you were born abroad.
■ At least one of your parents became naturalized when you were under 18 years of age and met …read more

Since adopting AJ we have been dealing with symptoms of Institutional Autism, something that the Autism community thinks is a quack theory but an illness and diagnosis that we know to be very real.
We know that AJ had a very traumatic life in the orphanage but we don’t know why. When we visited him he seemed happy, content, very excited to see us and comfortable with his caregivers, although they were rough with him. We do know that he spent almost 3 months in the hospital directly after birth before being transfered to the orphanage and that he had …read more

There are currently 3,000 (some statistics say 5000) children waiting in foster care in Guatemala, all of them matched with families in the United States and all waiting to be welcomed by their forever families. However, if their adoption case (yes it all sounds so technical) does not get processed by December 31, 2007 they may never get home…or live in foster care inevitably.
Here is a list of things, recommended by Joint Council of International Children’s Services, that you can do to help bring them home.
How YOU can participate in the …read more

Gayle Christensen, the Executive Director of The Theraplay Institute has announced that they have received a grant from the Pioneer Press Charitable Foundation to conduct an attachment based parenting class for newly adoptive families.