Notice to American Adoption Community Interested in Ukraine - September 27, 2006
Dear Members of the American Adoption Community Interested in Ukraine:
This information is addressed to the US prospective adoptive parents who have the registered dossiers at the State Department for Adoption and Protection of Rights of the Child (SDAPRC) and have confirmed their intention to adopt from Ukraine. The SDAPRC is obligated by the Ukrainian legislation not to keep any adoption dossiers with expired documents. This is why the SDAPRC requests all registered families to submit their updated adoption documents to the SDAPRC before October 15, 2006. The documents must be mailed; they cannot be hand-delivered by the local facilitators. If the updated documents are with your adoption facilitator in Ukraine, they can be mailed to the SDAPRC from a Ukrainian address. According to the SDAPRC, failure to submit the updated documents before October 15, 2006 will result in cancellation of your registration.
The schedule of adoption appointments for October 2006 is completed and posted in the public area of the SDAPRC. It contains the registration numbers from 14511 to 14884 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 October. The SDAPRC is going to post the monthly schedules of adoption appointments on its own webpage. We will send a link to this webpage once it is up and running.
The SDAPRC has confirmed to the Embassy that priority in assigning appointments is being given to the married adoptive parents. The registered single adoptive parents will be scheduled after all married couples are processed. This decision is based on the requirements of the current Family Code of Ukraine.
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: 38-044-490-4422
Fax: 38-044-490-4570
kyivadoptions@state.gov
http://kyiv.usembassy.gov/amcit_adoptions_eng.html.