Important Notice to the Adoption Community Interested in Ukraine - August 21, 2006
Dear Members of the American Adoption Community Interested in Ukraine:
With this public notice, we would like to provide updated information about Ukraine’s intercountry adoption program and address some rumors that are circulating in the U.S. adoption community.
We have been receiving a number of emails from prospective adoptive parents, asking whether the adoption appointments have been scheduled yet. Several adoptive parents have asked about the most recent adoption rumor, according to which no appointments will be scheduled until the problem of the missing post-placement reports (PPRs) has been resolved.
In fact, the Ukrainian State Department for Adoption and Protection of Rights of the Child (SDAPRC), which earlier this summer assumed responsibility for intercountry adoption matters within the Ukrainian government, has already completed its schedule of adoption appointments for September 2006. There are 25 American families on this list. This list is posted in the public area of the SDAPRC. It contains only the registration numbers (without any names) within the range 14000 to 15000 series. The invitation letters have already been mailed to the prospective adoptive parents. If you have registration numbers in the specified range and have not received an invitation, please contact the Adoption Unit of the U.S. Embassy in Kyiv, which will confirm with the SDAPRC whether your number is indeed scheduled for September. Adoptive parents who have the registration numbers outside this range will be scheduled for the coming months. The schedule of adoption appointments for October is not yet completed.
The high rate of non-compliance with the Ukrainian PPR requirements remains the most serious argument against resumption of acceptance of new adoption dossiers from non-Ukrainian citizens. We urge all American parents of Ukrainian adopted children to submit their annual reports to the appropriate Embassy or Consulate General of Ukraine on time. Parents who are delinquent in submitting prior reports should submit those as well as current and future reports. Please realize that adoptive parents’ failure to do this endangers the future of the Ukraine-U.S. intercountry adoption program and thus prevents many Ukrainian children in need from finding loving parents.
Please do not hesitate to contact us if you have any additional questions.
Sincerely,
Adoption Unit/Immigrant Visa Section
Consular Section
American Embassy
Kyiv, Ukraine
Tel: 38-044-4904422
Fax: 38-044-490-4570
kyivadoptions@state.gov
http://kyiv.usembassy.gov/amcit_adoptions_eng.html.