Suggestion....

...to shorten the adoption waiting time line...

Especially with this long wait at the Ministry of Interior (MOI), parents can shorten their overall wait time by applying for their I-600s prior to their child's file being submitted to MOI for the passport approval.

Original adoption documents get turned into MOI.

Haiti I-600 Approval Process: This is only possible if both parents (or the single parent in a single parent adoption) personally submit their I-600 approval request in person to the USCIS office in downtown Port au Prince.

(Some families submitted their I-600 approval request prior to the summer when the rules changed about how to do the I-600 approval in Haiti. Prior to the change of rules, one parent could apply for the I-600 approval with a notarized power of attorney of the other parent. That is no longer possible to do.)

In order to finish I600 approvals in Haiti , you need to make photocopies of all the original adoption documents and relinquishment, etc. (just the Haitian documents that were generated through the adoption process) and show the original documents to the ladies that work in the downtown immigration office (the one next to Archives).

They look at the original documents and then keep the copies...after that, the orphanage can submit the original documents to Immigration for MOI.

I-600 Approval Requests filed in the U.S.: Many of the USCIS offices in the different locations accept photocopies of the adoption related documents (don't forget translations of each document) in order to approve an I-600 application.

If your local office is one of the offices that accept the photocopies (because they know that when you apply for the actual visa, the U.S. Embassy sees and examines the original documents), then you should apply for your I-600 approval while your file is in MOI.

(Some USCIS offices want originals. In that case, the decision has to be made to Fed Ex the original documents to the U.S. and back again so that they can be submitted to MOI...which I would not feel comfortable with since there is a risk of getting original documents lost.)

Then the I-600 approval process and the MOI process could take place simultaneously versus back-to-back, dragging out the timeline.

Just a suggestion....