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75-country Green Card freeze: US announces adoption waiver in new update

The Green Card freeze on 75 countries threw a spanner in the works for families in the process of adopting children from countries mentioned on the list, as no exception was announced when the immigration freeze came into effect on January 21. The State Department took into consideration the hardships of the US families owing […]

Bulgarian nationalists march against euro currency adoption

Thousands Bulgarians took on the streets of the capital, Sofia, and other major cities on Saturday to protest government plans to adopt the euro and to demand a referendum on the issue (Image credit: AP) Thousands gathered in Bulgaria’s capital Sofia and other major cities on Saturday to reject the country’s plans to adopt the […]

South Korean truth commission halts probe into adoption fraud, hundreds of cases in limbo

SEOUL: The South Korean government’s fact-finding commission suspended its groundbreaking investigation into the extensive fraud and abuse that tainted the nation’s historic foreign adoption program, a decision stemming from internal disputes among commissioners regarding which cases warranted recognition as problematic. The Truth and Reconciliation Commission confirmed human rights violations in just 56 of the 367 […]

World’s largest ‘baby exporter’ admits to adoption fraud

SEOUL: South Korea on Wednesday admitted for the first time that in its rush to send children to American and European homes decades ago, its adoption agencies committed widespread malpractices, including falsifying documents, to make them more adoptable. The findings by South Korea’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission, a government agency, which said children were sent […]