Michele Thoren Bond, Assistant Secretary of State for Consular Affairs will be in Haiti from July 28 to August 3, to review consular operations at the U.S. Embassy in Port-au-Prince. She will accompany a congressional delegation led by Representative Trent Franks (Republican of Arizona), co-president of Congressional Coalition on Adoption, which will focus on child protection issues.

In Port-au-Prince, the Assistant Secretary Bond will meet with representatives from numerous civil society organizations working on child welfare and family assistance programs.

She will host a series of meetings with representatives from the United Nations Children's Emergency Fund (UNICEF), United States Citizenship and Immigration Service (USCIS), l’Institut du Bien-Etre Social et de Recherches (IBESR), and the Congressional Coalition on Adoption Institute (CCAI), to discuss U.S. and Haitian intercountry adoption policies and practices, as well as Haiti’s activities related to adoption, family assistance, and child welfare.

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