From the Vietnamese Press: Lawmakers back bid to join Hague adoption convention
A majority of National Assembly’s Standing Committee members supported a bid to sign the Hague Convention on Intercountry Adoption Friday, scheduling a vote on the measure by the year’s end.
The International Adopted Children Bureau, under the Minister of Justice, would be solely responsible for approving international adoption applications if Vietnam becomes a signatory on the convention, said Deputy Minister Hoang The Lien on the sidelines of the committee session.
Currently, each provincial government ratifies its own international adoption applications.
Financial aid to orphanages would also be handled by the central government agency if Vietnam joins the convention, said Lien.
The move would aim to ward off unhealthy competition between international adoption agencies and even among Vietnamese orphanages, he added.
Lien said lawmakers would also work to remedy shortcomings in local adoption regulations, which many people had capitalized on to forge adoption applications.
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This sounds like very good news indeed! I just wish while they were working on it/voting on it, they’d let the dossiers already over there just sit on a shelf somewhere in anticipation of the reworked agreement rather than returning them to PAPs!