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Demand Humanitarian Parole for Haitian Orphans
  1. Signatures
    374 out of 500
    Petitioning
    1. The President of the United States (+ 5 others)
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      • The President of the United States
      • The U.S. Senate
      • The U.S. House of Representatives
      • Director, Congressional Relations and GAO/OIG Audit Liaison Office (Elliot Williams)
      • DHS Secretary (Janet Napolitano)
      • State Department
  2. Created By
    Prerna Lal
    Washington, DC
About this Petition Petition Letter
How We Won

Jan 19, 2010

Thank you so much! Over the weekend, more than 250 supporters at Change.org and many concerned parents asked Congress, DHS, and the State Department to fix this, winning humanitarian parole for the kids who have loving homes awaiting them in the United States.

Read more about the details and learn what else you can do!

Hundreds of American couples were in the process of adopting children from Haiti when the 7.5 quake hit the country last week. Many Haitian adoptions are now in limbo. Government buildings that were processing adoptions were demolished and many government workers are either feared dead or missing. Orphans in Haiti have also skyrocketed as a result of the earthquake. They are in grave danger of food and water shortages, looting and homelessness, and still separated from their adoptive parents in the United States of America.

The solution is humanitarian parole for these Haitian children who already have homes awaiting them in the United States. This does not expedite the adoption process but it allows these children to be brought to the United States for a temporary period. Besides halting deportations and granting temporary status, this is another way in which DHS can help Haiti.

Please sign-on to this email to be sent to your Congressional members and DHS and follow it up with calls. United States citizens undergoing inter-country adoptions from Haiti should visit this state department page for more information about their individual cases.

Recent Signatures

Please Grant Humanitarian Parole for Haitian Orphans

Greetings,

Thousands of children in orphanages in Haiti no longer have a roof over their heads, food to eat or clean water to drink. Many of those children are in the adoption process with parents in the United States. They are in grave danger of food and water shortages, looting and homelessness, and still separated from their adoptive parents in the United States of America.

I are aware that USCIS has the authority to issue a humanitarian parole for people without legal documentation to travel to the United States. While granting a humanitarian parole is outside the normal procedures, the United States government has granted them in the past (e.g. Cambodia and Romania).

I am requesting that you contact USCIS on my behalf and request that humanitarian paroles be granted to these children being adopted.

While I realize that the United States seeks to honor the adoption process established in Haiti, I feel that that these children are in dire need and the country of Haiti would be best served by letting these children come to the United States. I feel that Haitian authorities would agree to this if it was proposed. What better way for the United States to help Haiti than to care for Haiti's child that is already so loved by these families.

Please take my request for humanitarian parole under consideration.

[Your name]

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