News from Vlad

We finally have some more good news to report. Our Dossier was delivered on schedule to Vlad in Ukraine on March 2. Our file was translated and our facilitator presented our file to the State Department of Adoption in Ukraine to get a submission date. Vlad emailed me and let me know that our submission date is June 22, 2009. (YAY)

That date means a couple of our documents will have to be redone, notarized and apostilled and sent to Ukraine before June 22th to be translated. This is because every document we submit on June 22th has to be good for an additional 6 months. Some of our documents were as of December 1st, 13st, etc. so they have to be redone...Its only a couple, so its not too bad.

At this point, we know the SDA has up to 20 business days to review and approve the dossier and then schedule our appointment. So now, the best we know is we will be going to Ukraine in the 3rd quarter sometime. Everything can change at any point, but a family who submitted in the very beginning of February had their appointment on March 25. So the appointment was about 6 or 7 weeks from the submission date (mid August maybe, for us). We'll see.

The plaster work we had done in the kids' rooms is complete and ready for priming and painting. Hopefully, with warmer weather coming and Andrew finishing up tax season, we can get some of the furniture painted and the rooms painted.

If you're interested in looking at some of the orphanages, check out http://www.iorphan.org/ click on orphanages/Ukrainian...There are some cute pics of kids and what the orphanages are like.

Bu vai (Bye - Ukrainian)

~Heather