Common Adoption Abbreviations
I created this list of common abbreviations in Vietnam Adoptions for the MAP list and thought I’d share it here along with a few others I’ve picked up along the way:
- AAR Adoption Agency Research - email list
- AP Adoptive Parent
- APV Adoptive Parents - Vietnam - email list
- AYAP As young as possible (pertaining to the requested age of child)
- CHI Children’s Hope International (agency)
- DHS Department of Homeland Security
- DIA/IAD Department of International Adoptions in Vietnam (a division of the MoJ)
- DTV Dossier to Vietnam
- FCV Families With Children From Vietnam - website and nat’l support group
- G&R Giving & Receiving Ceremony, the adoption ceremony held in Vietnam
- HCMC Ho Chi Minh City , formerly known as Saigon
- INS - Immigration and Naturalization Services (also known as USCIS) a division of the DHS
- LVC Loving Vietnam’s Children - email list
- MoJ Ministry of Justice (in Vietnam)
- NOID: Notice of Intent To Deny (child’s visa)
- NSN Non-Special Needs
- OC Older Child (pretaining to the age at which a child is adopted)
- PAP Prospective Adoptive Parent
- SN Special Needs
- SW Social Worker
- TA Travel Approval
- USCIS - US Citizenship and Immigration Services (also known as INS), a division of the DHS
- VORF Vietnamese Orphan Relief Fund (agency)
