Well, we thought things were on track but we heard from Vlad on April 27th that our submission date of June 22 was changed to September 7th. This is the date our file was to be submitted to the State Department of Adoption in Ukraine.
This pushes us back a few months and means that our whole dossier needs redone. As of today, the whole dossier has been redone and tomorrow I plan on going to the Capitol in Harrisburg to have the documents apostilled.
The reason the date was pushed back is the SDA thought they would be shorthanded because of vacations in the summer and therefore would not be able to review and approve all the files and have the appointments for the families. In addition, the Ukrainian government and many of the officials and inspectors go on extended summer holidays. The government pretty much shuts down. This makes traveling and adopting during the summer an extended affair and can take longer than 4-6 weeks. Also, its really hot there in the summer with no air conditioning at most places.
Our best estimate at this point it to travel for our appointment sometime in the 4th quarter, possibly in November. Our hope is to be home in time for Christmas with the kids.
We're ready to prime and paint the kids rooms and finish up the furniture that we are refinishing. We have been trying to keep up with the yard work and Andrew is finally recooperated from Tax Season.
I try and keep in mind that when we are invited to Ukraine for our appointment, then that is when we are meant to go to find our children. The children that are meant for us will be there then.
Since I last posted, time has flown by, hopefully the next few months fly by just as quickly and we don't have any more hiccups in our journey....
Das Vidanya
~ Heather
Monday, May 18, 2009
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