Holt International Children's Services

[malie64]

all new accounts who registered before NOV 11 9:00 PM eastern standard time have been approved or deleted

If you have registered and can not log in, please do the following.

Check to see if your user name is still on the memberlist (if it is not you will need to register).

If your member name is listed, please post to this thread and I will attempt to figure out the problem.

If your name is not listed, it was deleted as a possible spammer, in which case you will need to register again. To avoid the problem happening again, you may try a number of things.


register with an easy to identify id to start (adoptchina for example or momto2) you can change your name after your account has been approved.

Do NOT put a website your profile, a majority of spammers do so unless your website is easy to identify (such as our adoption journey or going to china) as not being spam, putting a website in your profile if there is a major spam registration at the same time, makes it more likely your account will not be approved by mistake.

DO not put a location unless it's a specific state or part of a state (Northern NJ for example stands out as a real person, compared to USA)



new accounts are approved within a week (sometimes within 24 to 48 hours but the longest timeframe is usually a week). I will try to update this message every 2 weeks with the latest date that accounts have been approved through.

Again if you registered prior to the date listed above and your account is not listed on the memberlist or you can not log in you will need to register or let us know you are having problems

Thank you

If you put something in your sign. file that mentions adopting your account is more likely to get approved on the first try

[malie64]

If you put your country as somewhere OTHER a state or a reference to part of the USA, are unlikely to be approved. Please do NOT put the USA as your location as typically 99% of users who put USA also tend to be spammers..putting your home state or even east coast, west coast, deep south, midwest actually makes it easier for you to be approved

If you don't put anything in location, then your id is not flagged as a possible spammer right off the bat