At long last we are happy to announce that a petition in support of Vietnam
adoptions has been launched at:
http://www.PetitionOnline.com/vn1/petition.html

A large number of people in the adoption community have contributed to the
effort to make this happen! We have attempted to make this petition as
direct as possible in hopes that we will attract the understanding and
desired attention of our government officials.  The petition states:

"We are outraged by current Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS)
activities pertaining to adoptions in Vietnam.  American families legally
adopting children in Vietnam are being penalized through weeks of delay and
visa denials, and children are suffering.  We request that:

1) The families currently stuck in Vietnam with their legally adopted
children be allowed to bring their children home immediately;

2) Adoptions in Vietnam be permitted to continue, and;

3) Families adopting in Vietnam in the future be treated fairly and
expeditiously, with full disclosure of facts if any problems are found in
cases and prompt substantiation of allegations made against any parties.”

There is a minimal amount of "required" information for signing this
petition.  The required information is: your name, e-mail address, and
state.  You may choose to keep your e-mail private, available to the
petition "author" (Connie Lewis), or public.  We believe the requirement to
list your state lends to the credibility of the petition and will allow us
to inform our elected officials of where our supporters reside.

We sincerely implore you to ferociously circulate this petition to your
family, friends, co-workers, churches, schools, community organizations,
basically EVERYONE you know.  Also ask those individuals to do the same in
hopes of gaining the attention that is needed to bring the waiting children
home and to enable Vietnam adoptions to continue in a fair and
expeditious manner.  If you know people who wish to sign the petition but do
not have an e-mail address or on-line access, you can enter their personal
information using your e-mail address.  The premise of this petition is very
simple.  If you do not agree, do not sign.

Once we feel the majority of people have had the opportunity to sign, we
will be forwarding this petition via e-mail and fax/snail mail to the
following: The Congressional Coalition on Adoption, JCICS, The President of
the United States, First Lady, Vice-President, Commissioner Ziglar, Colin
Powell, Congressional Representatives and Senators and any other appropriate
parties.

This petition begins IMMEDIATELY and we would like to have it completed by
January 27, 2002 at the latest so that we can submit it to the appropriate
officials.

Here again is the link directly to the petition:
http://www.PetitionOnline.com/vn1/petition.html "