Requesting your help,,,,One more time

This was posted on another site,(please copy and use it) I think its a wonderful idea and to the point. Here is the letter I am sending and faxing out first thing Monday. I hope you all support one more letter-calling campaign. *I think it would be best to get out ASAP as July 1 is truly right around the corner. Here is the letter I am sending, along with all four addresses *these people are part of the Congressional Coalition on Adoption.

Congressman Ginny Brown-Waite
414 Cannon House Office Building
Washington, DC 20515
Phone 202-225-1002
Fax 202-226-6559

Mr. & Mrs.
2 Any Street
Your town, State, Zip
Phone

Dear Congresswoman Brown-Waite

We have been in process of adopting a child from Vietnam for **** years now. Please help us to complete our adoption and bring our child home. It is our most heartfelt request that you send a letter from the Dept of State to director Dr. Long of the DIA. In your letter please ask him to allow all dossiers submitted by July 1,2008 to be grand fathered in and allow all families currently logged in permission to receive a baby’s referral even after Sept 1.

I feel that Vietnam will honor this request if they have word from the US DOS that Visas will be issued to the child so families can complete the adoption to bring the child home to the USA. We applied to USCIS believing in good faith that the US and Vietnam would work to continue working together by completing ethical adoptions.

USCIS implemented DNA testing and the Orphans Fist program. These steps will help bring confidence to the adoption process and allow the US with Vietnam to negotiate a new MOU with the goal of becoming a Hague country. Closing the program at this point will leave over 3000 families and orphans in limbo for possibility two more years.

I look forward from hearing your thoughts regarding our request. This is a very trying time for our family and we wish this does not end in sadness.


Sincerely,


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Below are addresses and fax numbers of the four co-chairs of the
Congressional Coalition on Adoption:

Senator Norm Coleman
320 Senate Hart Office Building
Washington , DC 20510
Main : 202-224-5641
Fax: 202-224-1152

Senator Mary Landrieu
724 Hart Senate Building
United States Senate
Washington , DC 20510
Voice: (202)224-5824
Fax:(202) 224-9735

Congressman James Oberstar
2365 Rayburn House Office Building
Washington , DC 20515
(202) 225-6211
FAX: (202) 225-0699


Congresswoman Ginny Brown-Waite
414 Cannon House Office Building
Washington , DC 20515
Phone: 202-225-1002
Fax: 202-226-6559