Comments on: Americans Hit Dossier Quota

By: tania

tania — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 20:29:58 +0000

Hello, We just came back from Ukraine and the adoption was a failure. The entire system has changes and our agency here is not willing to compromise on anything. We came home after couple years of work and with broken hearts. So this is how the system works now: After your dossier is approved you get an appointment with the ukrainian officials. The time of appointment comes and you are invited into a small room with your facilitator. Official asks you simple questions about what child you are hoping to adopt. They proceed to show you available children. In our case all five children shown to us had severe mental and physological issues, that would not be fixed by simple surgery. We picked one girl and we went to see her. We received a referral to go see only her and nobody else. The statements that you can adopt any child you want from Ukraine is now only a myth. You are forbidden from looking at any other children. We came back to Kiev because girl we were referred to would not even bond with us. On our second visit the official showed us only child and basically said that this is all she has for us. The child was also sick and had history of mental disease. We scheduled a third and final appointment. On our way out the official indicated that she does think she will have any other children available for us. We got the message and that evening we asked for our dossier back. We put two years into the adoption process and spent over 20K to come home empty handed. My husband summarized the process as “crap-shoot” where children are given to the adoptive families as they come out. The officials in Ukraine did not make any effort to match us with child at all. Considering that Ukraine did not join Hague they can do to adoptive parents whatever they can and there is nothing anyone can do. If anyone is considering international adoption, I would strongly suggest going through the country that is part of the Hague, or help our own children domestically.

To answer one of the above questions – yes, they will accept only certain numbers of dossier, and once that number is reaches they will shot down. So far they are all full for this year and they will not accept anything until February of 2009.

By: igueros

igueros — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 14:43:34 +0000

Translatorsvision.blogspot.com/

By: igueros

igueros — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 14:31:00 +0000

Find out about translator’s/facilitator’s vision of adoptions in Ukraine.
http://ranslatorsvision.blogspot.com/

Start reading from the end. Comments and questions are welcome.

By: 18773

18773 — Fri, 05 Oct 2007 08:57:54 +0000

Has anyone heard any update on the SDA shutting down dossiers? Sounds like it might be cut off until February…

By: AdoptionBlogs Editor

AdoptionBlogs Editor — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 00:09:59 +0000

“I am sure that your resignation will be a real loss to adoption blogs!”

It has been, but the one thing we can all agree on here is that family must come first.

By: aspecialfamily

aspecialfamily — Wed, 01 Aug 2007 23:20:23 +0000

Angela I am really really sorry to hear that you resigned. I will really miss your posts. You gave me hope that singles will be allowed again! I am sure that your resignation will be a real loss to adoption blogs!
Please do keep in touch,
aspecialfamily AT yahoo DOT com

By: AngelaW

AngelaW — Wed, 01 Aug 2007 20:21:00 +0000

aspecialfamily, I am OK. The summer has gone well. Natasha went to a sleep over summer camp. She had a blast and came back more confident.

I resigned from adoptionblogs to take care of my family. I don't have the energy to write at this point.

info, I am glad to heard about Raisa. That is great news.

By: info

info — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 12:01:33 +0000

Something has changed!

The Dossier for Raisa (blogg "Bringing Raisa Home") is in SDA already.

Thanks to new Director of SDA Vasiliy Shik!

By the way: he is professional lowyer, and he is respect the Low indeed. Before SDA he was the chief of International Cooperation Department of the Ministry of Education of Ukraine.

info@adoption.net.ua

By: aspecialfamily

aspecialfamily — Sun, 29 Jul 2007 19:37:49 +0000

Angela
I hope you are OK? I have been worried about you, you usually blog much more frequently!
I hope you and your daughter are both enjoying the summer.
Looking forward to your posts!