June 09, 2006
Still waiting
Everyone in the Ukraine adoption community is waiting, waiting and watching for the new adoption center to open. There have been no adoptions for the past few months, no new dossiers accepted. Families are redoing their paperwork for the second and third times. It's so frustrating, I'm sure!
The word is, the center will be finally up and running June 20, or shortly thereafter. Facilitators have been helping the new leaders organize all of the files that were moved to another building. The hope is that the new adoption leaders will open the door again for new applications from Americans for children under 10 years old. Families that were registered before the shut down are waiting and waiting for a date to travel to Ukraine. I totally know what it's like, day after day, wondering if you'll hear some news. We waited 8 months to travel.
It would be so easy to just give up now. Who feels like being fingerprinted again? Or getting another physical? (those dreaded medical forms!!) Or having a social worker come to your house yet another time and ask questions about your life? How fun is it to ask your boss AGAIN to sign an employment letter?
Families: Hang in there. Please. For the sake of the children. You have gone this far. I promise you it's all worth it.
Posted by Laura at June 9, 2006 11:44 PMPosted to Adoption News