Monday, August 3, 2009
To all please consider going to the following link and sign a petition to help with a serious issue parents of newly adopted children are facing from any international Hague country, one family is held up in China right now.
This family (James Scruggs and Candace Litchford) who are in China, and have already had Gotcha Day (meaning in China they are the legal parents now) are requesting help. They did not find out until after they were in China that their new daughter had already tested positive for Active TB. They are now in a very difficult situation, as they cannot bring her back to the U.S because of the new Hague regulations as of July 1 the CDC/DHS has a new regulation requiring all immigrants to pass a TB screening, and if they fail the screening, they are required to wait until full treatment is administered in the country of origin before coming to the US.
The family can not send their daughter back to the state-run Chinese orphanage as she is no longer an orphan, nor can they financially stay for several months. It would be extremely cruel to Yue Ye to have to “abandon” her again even if she is at a foster family, and there is no way of knowing that she would be provided the treatment she requires. In addition, she would be exposed once again to whatever source it was that infected her with TB in the first place, and they may never get to bring her home.
The current regime for addressing a TB diagnosis in an adopted Chinese child may require the child to remain in Guangzhou so that he or she can be brought each day to the medical clinic in Guangzhou to have a physician observe the administration of the required dose of antibiotics. Treatment of TB can require six months or more of daily antibiotics. If it turns out that the daily treatment must be observed by a physician in Guangzhou, then that will greatly limit the available foster care arrangements that can be made for a child who must go through treatment to receive a US immigrant visa.
………………………. could everyone read and please consider signing the JCICS petition which is trying to deal w/ this very issue.... they need A LOT MORE SIGNATURES!!
http://www.gopetition.com/petitions/build-families-not-barriers.html
Here is a link to the families blog: http://jayscruggs.livejournal.com/
Blessings Angie
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