Sample Letters to send today or tomorrow!
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letters here to send. Please pass to everyone you know to send today
or tomorrow:
Congressman Letter:
Dear Congressman:
As you are aware, the United States Department of State has issued a
warning stating that Guatemala will stop processing adoptions to the
United States beginning January 1, 2008, until the U.S. accession to
the Hague Convention takes effect. The warning went on to state that
once the Convention is in force in the U.S. (projected for spring
2008) there may be a period of time during which the U.S. will not be
able to approve adoptions from Guatemala, until Guatemala's adoption
process provides the protections for children and families required by
the Hague Adoption Convention. Guatemalan President Berger has
confirmed these statements saying that ALL inter country adoptions
with the United States will cease for ALL cases including all pending
cases.
I am extremely concerned that prospective adoptive parents may not be
able to complete their adoptions by deadline of December 31, 2007 and
that these prospective adopted children will be left parentless and
homeless. Guatemala has no governmental infrastructure to care for
relinquished and abandoned children. Thousands of relinquished and
abandoned children are presently being supported solely by waiting
adoptive parents.
I am writing to ask for your help in encouraging the Department of
State to actively engage the Guatemalan government to come up with a
transitional plan for pending adoptions. I am asking that the
Department of State negotiate a plan to allow pending adoptions to be
completed under the law that it started under and to be "grandfathered
in" under the current system. It is my understanding that that our
Department of State has urged the Guatemalan Congress to pass an
adoption law which offers no plan for (1) funding adequately (2) child
care (3) services to pregnant women and vulnerable children and that
the Guatemalan Congress will be discussing amendments on Tuesday Oct.
9. The Department of State should encourage - with the same energy
with which they encouraged the passage of this law - amendments which
include a realistic funding plan, child care plan, and prenatal, natal
and postnatal services as well as a realistic way for existing child
care facilities to be able to care for the children in their care
(funding).
Thank you for your help in this critical matter to help get these
pending adoptions "grandfathered in" and to bring these children home
to their adoptive families.
Sincerely,
Name
Address
Phone Number
Senator Letter:
October 4, 2007
Dear Senator:
As you are aware, the United States Department of State has issued a
warning stating that Guatemala will stop processing adoptions to the
United States beginning January 1, 2008, until the U.S. accession to
the Hague Convention takes effect. The warning went on to state that
once the Convention is in force in the U.S. (projected for spring
2008) there may be a period of time during which the U.S. will not be
able to approve adoptions from Guatemala, until Guatemala's adoption
process provides the protections for children and families required by
the Hague Adoption Convention. Guatemalan President Berger has
confirmed these statements saying that ALL inter country adoptions
with the United States will cease for ALL cases including all pending
cases.
I am extremely concerned that prospective adoptive parents may not be
able to complete their adoptions by deadline of December 31, 2007 and
that these prospective adopted children will be left parentless and
homeless. Guatemala has no governmental infrastructure to care for
relinquished and abandoned children. Thousands of relinquished and
abandoned children are presently being supported solely by waiting
adoptive parents.
I am writing to ask for your help in encouraging the Department of
State to actively engage the Guatemalan government to come up with a
transitional plan for pending adoptions. I am asking that the
Department of State negotiate a plan to allow pending adoptions to be
completed under the law that it started under and to be "grandfathered
in" under the current system. It is my understanding that that our
Department of State has urged the Guatemalan Congress to pass an
adoption law which offers no plan for (1) funding adequately (2) child
care (3) services to pregnant women and vulnerable children and that
the Guatemalan Congress will be discussing amendments on Tuesday Oct.
9. The Department of State should encourage - with the same energy
with which they encouraged the passage of this law - amendments which
include a realistic funding plan, child care plan, and prenatal, natal
and postnatal services as well as a realistic way for existing child
care facilities to be able to care for the children in their care
(funding).
Thank you for your help in this critical matter to help get these
pending adoptions "grandfathered in" and to bring these children home
to their adoptive families.
Sincerely,
Name
Address
Phone Number
DOS Letter:
October 4, 2007
Department of State
To Whom It May Concern:
As you are aware, the United States Department of State has issued a
warning stating that Guatemala will stop processing adoptions to the
United States beginning January 1, 2008, until the U.S. accession to
the Hague Convention takes effect. The warning went on to state that
once the Convention is in force in the U.S. (projected for spring
2008) there may be a period of time during which the U.S. will not be
able to approve adoptions from Guatemala, until Guatemala's adoption
process provides the protections for children and families required by
the Hague Adoption Convention. Guatemalan President Berger has
confirmed these statements saying that ALL inter country adoptions
with the United States will cease for ALL cases including all pending
cases.
I am extremely concerned that prospective adoptive parents may not be
able to complete their adoptions by deadline of December 31, 2007 and
that these prospective adopted children will be left parentless and
homeless. Guatemala has no governmental infrastructure to care for
relinquished and abandoned children. Thousands of relinquished and
abandoned children are presently being supported solely by waiting
adoptive parents.
I am writing to ask the Department of State to actively engage the
Guatemalan government to come up with a transitional plan for pending
adoptions. I am asking that the Department of State negotiate a plan
to allow pending adoptions to be completed under the law that it
started under and to be "grandfathered in" under the current system.
It is my understanding that that our Department of State has urged the
Guatemalan Congress to pass an adoption law which offers no plan for
(1) funding adequately (2) child care (3) services to pregnant women
and vulnerable children and that the Guatemalan Congress will be
discussing amendments on Tuesday Oct.9. The Department of State
should encourage - with the same energy with which they encouraged the
passage of this law - amendments which include a realistic funding
plan, child care plan, and prenatal, natal and postnatal services as
well as a realistic way for existing child care facilities to be able
to care for the children in their care (funding).
Thank you for your help in this critical matter to help get these
pending adoptions "grandfathered in" and to bring these children home
to their adoptive families.
Sincerely,
Name
Address
Phone Number