I know that families are switching from Ukraine to Guatemala, China and South Korea. These countries have fairly consistent processing and it is possible to adopt young children/babies.

When I sat down I noticed the lady across from me had an asian boy, about 5 years old, with her. Neat!


So then later after she and the boy go back to see the dr., her hubby comes around the corner (had been talking on his cell) and sits down across from me. After about 5 minutes he asks me if we are adopting from China. I say yes....blah blah blah....


Come to find out his son was adopted from Thailand. They have been waiting for the Ukraine for ??? years now and the Ukraine's adoption authority or whatever has no one over them so there are no adoptions coming out of the Ukraine. So they are switching to China.


They were at the dr. to get their physical for their dossier!

From: Blog: The Lane's Red Thread Journey

Ukrainian adoption has been shutdown since March 31, 2006. And by shutdown I mean that no one has received an appointment to receive a referral. Dossiers haven't been accepted.

No one really knows how long adoptions will be shut down. It has been 2.5 months now. And I know this feels like a life time. Especially because adoptions were being processed very slowly at the end of 2005. And many families traveled to Ukraine and didn't adopt a child. Some of these families are going to try again.


There are American families waiting for an appointment... and their dossier was accepted in Feb 2006.


But now we have more certainty.... The new Ukrainian government body that has authority over adoptions will open in July. At least we know probably know what month they will open.


If I had an approved dossier, I would wait and see what happens in July. Don't give up just yet.