Stahlke Adoption

Foreign Adoption in Ukraine

While we were in Ukraine to adopt our children (summer 2005), the Ukrainian government was in the process of closing adoption applications in order to transfer the adoption bureaucracy from one ministry of the government to another. Our dossier was toward the end of the ones that still went through before everything closed.

The changeover to the new ministry has now taken place, and many of the dossiers that were in process back in 2005 have now been handled. We've heard that the acceptance of new dossiers for foreign adoptive parents should begin pretty soon. Besides talking with our agency, I've also been watching the website of the U.S. Embassy in Kiev, for they give copies of announcements from the Ukrainian government related to adoption. If you want to peruse their website, here's the address (with underscore between "amcit" and "adoptions"; and another underscore between "adoptions" and "eng"):
http://web.usembassy.kiev.ua/amcit_adoptions_eng.html

posted by Stahlkes @ 7:57 PM