of some sort , '' Bickel told CNN . God 's Littlest Angels is considered one of Haiti 's larger orphanages . Parents who have adopted children through the orphanage are also pressing their governments for emergency action . `` The orphans need to be granted refugee status and allowed to come home to their adoptive parents , '' said Allison Garwood of Los Angeles , California , who adopted a boy from GLA and brought him home last year . `` The U.S. needs to not only allow but demand that children be sent to their adoptive families right away . '' British citizen Chris Skelton , who arrived in Haiti hours before the earthquake hit to sign paperwork as part of the adoption process , wrote a public letter urging foreign help . `` I can not express the sheer magnitude of the plight that the children of this country have faced , one which will now spiral downwards further with devastating results , '' Skelton wrote in the letter . `` The situation is dire -- there will be many more children in need of help , and GLA and other orphanages can not cope with the
-LRB- CNN -RRB- -- Foreign governments should urgently accept Haitian orphans on humanitarian grounds following this week 's devastating earthquake , an orphanage director in Haiti and adoptive parents said Friday . Emergency visas and passports could help push through adoptions that were stalled after the quake , and would open up beds for children who lost their parents in the disaster , said Dixie Bickel , director of God 's Littlest Angels orphanage just outside Port-au-Prince . Paperwork for adoptions that were under way when the earthquake hit Tuesday night may now be buried in the rubble of collapsed buildings and lost , said Bickel , whose orphanage cares for 152 children , including 84 babies . The government officials who deal with adoption cases may be missing , hurt , or otherwise focused on the disaster , which means the adoptions wo n't go through , she said . `` I would like to see the international community come up with a plan for the children that have been adopted by European , Canadian , and American citizens of how these children can go to their adoptive parents ' countries , either under refugee status or emergency status