Adoptions in Guatemala
"Pink Slip" Processing Change
November 15, 2007
In order to be more responsive to adoptive parents and provide more timely information for the purpose of coordinating travel, the Consular Section at the U.S. Embassy in Guatemala City will no longer issue adoption interview appointment letters, or “Pink Slips”, in hard copy. Beginning November 19, all appointment letters will be sent directly to the petitioner via email. It will no longer be necessary for a representative to pick up the “pink slip” at the Embassy. Adoptive parents will be responsible for notifying their attorney or facilitator of the appointment date, rather than being notified by a representative.
The Consular Section will contact adoptive parents using the email address that all adoptive parents are required to submit to DHS as part of the immigrant visa petition. If the Consular Section is unable to contact the adoptive parents using the given email address, we will then call the parents to request a new email address. In order for the Immigrant Visa Unit to work quickly and efficiently, we request that adoptive families not contact the Consular Section to update or check an email address.
To ensure that local representatives have necessary authorization for the immigrant visa medical examinations, those forms will be provided at the time that the second DNA authorization is given.