Yesterday, over at Guatemala Adoption Information and News, Kevin reported that the USCIS Guatemala had posted a list of adoption providers who will no longer be able to process adoptions in Guatemala.

(information printed with permission of Guatadopt.com)

“Adoption Service Providers Banned

The USCIS in Guatemala has issued the below statement about adoption service providers being banned by the embassy.

To Members of the Guatemalan Adoption Community:

Please be advised that the following individuals have been banned from any involvement with any aspect of the I-600, Petition to Classify Orphan as an Immediate Relative, process by the USCIS Guatemala Office:

1. Mary Bridget Bonn
2. Monica Janeth Ruiz González de Castañeda
3. Rosa Claudia Juárez
4. Dora Amanda Zavala Navas
5. Gamaliel Sentes Luna
6. Aurora González Campo Menes
7. Lilian Ferrer de Letona

Any documentation submitted to the adoptions window found to have any connection with the above named individuals will be rejected out of hand. Cases that have already been submitted for adjudication that have a connection with any of the above named individuals will require a letter from the petitioner naming a substitute for the banned individual.

Any person and/or entity trying to circumvent this proscription will likewise be subject to a similar action.

Sincerely,
Joseph T. Roma
Field Office Director
USCIS Guatemala”

These lists always send shivers down my back, because I’m pretty sure that some poor parent(s)are caught in the middle of an adoption with one of these providers. My heart goes out to them, and I can only hope that their adoptions will be completed.