Stahlke Adoption

PPR

Post-Placement Reports

When someone submits a dossier to Ukraine for adoption, one of the documents is a commitment to do post-placement reports. Once a year, we fill out a multi-page form for each of our children, with details about their physical, academic, social, and developmental growth. Last year, each form required eight to ten photos, all taken within the previous calendar year. (Yes, that means forty to fifty photos for our family!)

Our current PPRs are late, due to all the paperwork for Kola's dossier. But Jonathan has been working hard on them, and they'll be ready for me to submit tomorrow at the Ukrainian consulate in the Loop.

These reports are very important, for the Ukrainian government wants to be sure its children abroad are receiving proper care. The number of international adoptions allowed in Ukraine this year is divided up between various countries based partly on their citizens' past completion of PPRs. Therefore, since the United States is known for its poor record of PPR submission, the number of adoptions allowed by Americans is lower than it might otherwise be. Luckily, exceptions are made for handicapped children or children in sibling groups, so we are not directly affected.

For more information, see the following website:
http://kiev.usembassy.gov/amcit_adoptions_notice_1212_eng.html

posted by Stahlkes @ 5:38 PM