The JCICS (Joint Council on International Children Services) has posted a press release at

http://www.jcics.org/Ukraine%20Press%20Release_Feb06.pdf

Adoptive parents need to turn in their annual reports. Even if they adopted in 1996, the Ukrainian government wants the reports.

Ukrainian adoption is mostly shut down (there are exceptions... child 10 or older, handicapped, sibling of previously adopted child) for Americans since September 21, 2005.

http://kiev.usembassy.gov/amcit_adoptions_notice_0921_eng.html

This is because 16% of the Ukrainian children adopted by Americans between 1996 and 2004 don’t have annual reports filed on them.

You can find the annual report form off the Ukrainian Embassy in Washington DC's web site. It is simple to fill out.

http://www.ukraineinfo.us/consular/adoption.html

I send my daughter's report to the Ukrainian embassy in Washington DC. I can now send it via email to adoption@ukremb.com. The Ukrainian Consulate in Chicago still requires parents to send the annual report via snail mail. I haven't heard if the Ukrainian Consulate in San Francisco or New York accepts emailed annual reports. Anyone know?

If you don't know which Ukrainian Consulate (New York, Chicago, San Francisco, Washington DC) you deal with, use this web site. The state you live in determines which consulate you use.

http://www.ukraineinfo.us/consular/consular.html


Food for thought... maybe you sent an annual report in and it was lost. This happened with my daughter's registration.

I registered my daughter's Ukrainian passport with the Ukrainian embassy in Washington DC. This has to be done because my daughter is a Ukrainian citizen. One year later I sent in an annual report and received a letter from the Ukrainian embassy stating my daughter wasn't register. I sent them a copy of the passport and the issue was fixed.

But still.... I am going to ask the Ukrainian embassy in Washington DC (adoption@ukremb.com) how many annual reports they have from me.

One more thought... Ukraine is scoring an annual report as missing under the following rules. From http://www.ukraineinfo.us/consular/adoption-report.html

Please be so kind as to send annual reports to the Ukrainian Consulates once a year for the first three years after adoption, and then once every three years until the child reaches the age of 18.

Someone who adopted in 1996 would have an annual report submitted in 1997, 1998, 1999, 2003, 2006.