Speech #1130117938

In August of 2010. the State Department suspended the authorization for American families to adopt children from that nation with the exception of those families. some from Pennsylvania. who were already in the process of adopting Nepali orphans. The State Department and U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services told these "pipeline" families that their cases would be processed to completion. but that they should anticipate significant delays and possibly negative outcomes. since their cases were suspected of being heavily tainted by fraud. corruption. and illegal or unethical practices. In response to U.S. government requests for additional evidence substantiating the legality and morality of these adoptions. these families had to undertake extensive investigations on their own to provide such evidence. Since these families were already completely bonded with their adoptive children. each of them eagerly undertook its investigation. at great financial and emotional expense.