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Chelsea getting in on the Haiti orphan game:
https://foia.state.gov/searchapp/DOCUMENTS/Litigation_F-2016-07895_37/F-2016-07895/DOC_0C06187213/C06187213.pdf
On 2/20/10, Diane Reynolds <dreynolds©clintonemail.c omwrote:
My favorite lawyers with international and visa experience - I am sorry this
is so long, I don't know enough of your language or the situational nuances
to be brief. Partners in health has a few children that need to be evacuated
for medical reasons- i.e., the care they need is not accessible in the
country. None are going to die in the next 24-48 hours so don't qualify for
an emergency humanitarian visa and neither then do their parents/a single
guardian/accompaniament (who would also under such circumstances as I
understand it). All are small children- and all of their family documents
were destroyed in the quake. For the first month, Dept of Homeland Security
was basically turning their proverbial head. Now, more than a month on and
post kerfuffle with the "orphans" and missionairi es, the local DHS office
requires the parents prove they are the actual parents to be able to
accompany their children to Boston (where they would receive treatment). So
far, they can't in a way satisfactory to the DHS office, eg affidavits or
attestations of XYZ # of people, prove the relationship. The kids themselves
have all their paperwork- medical paperwork and visas, the only (again as I
understand it) and significant barrier is getting approval for their parents
to also travel (which is obviously important for a 2month old).
I asked the congressional delegation to streamlin e this process
legislatively (b/c why not) but in the interim or in case they don't what
would be a good template/standardized and efficient process to do this? Get
a priest's affidavit as someone recommended? Would we need an American
lawyer to do that? We have some here now- JAGs - on the USS comfort who
could do that for the next 2 weeks at least. Or ?? What did people do post
Katrina when they lost their documents or is that irrelevant b/c it was not
across a border?? If you're not the right people to ask, who would be? What
other Qs should I ask here?
Thank you thank you.
X
Chelsea