We finally got an email today from the Consulate that indicates our DNA is final…finally. So, basically, the Guatemalan USCIS has issued our case Pre-approval and when we get the social worker to finish up the family court documents our case can now move to PGN (unless there is an issue with our family court papers).
Prospective adoptive parents must receive receipt of “pre-approval” from the Department of Homeland Security’s U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (DHS/USCIS) office in Guatemala before their attorney can submit their dossier to the Guatemalan authorities. After obtaining clearance from a social worker under the supervision …read more

Disruptions and dissolutions happen in the adoption community but they usually happen within days or weeks, not after SIX years. I am certainly not "recalling" my child (see title of the post) but Dutch Diplomat Poeteray is in the process of dissolving the adoption with his daughter (who has no citizenship in Hong Kong or the Netherlands ) six years after adopting her from Korea.
Raymond and Meta Poeteray handed their daughter, Jade, over to social workers in Hong Kong saying the adoption had not worked out.
In a statement published by Dutch newspaper De Telegraaf (and the BBC News), Raymond …read more