expect delays....

The new National Adoption Centre in Ukraine is moving slowly in terms of getting their administrative functioning under control. They are definitely "under construction" as far as staffing is concerned. The new administration did not re-hire any of their old staff, so there will be a need for training their new employees. At present, the Adoption Centre in Kyiv is not accepting any dossiers. The news that we received yesterday is that they will start accepting dossiers (including updated dossiers) in July 2006 and will most likely start allocating travel dates for September,and as late as January 2007. The AC stopped accepting dossiers in April. I am sorry to say that we should expect delays....

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LATEST NEWS ON UKRAINE ADOPTIONS
Posted May 16, 2006
NEW DEPARTMENT PROJECTED TO OPEN ON JUNE 20
The new State Department for Adoption is still currently closed forpublic. It is technically open – they are hiring and training newstaff and setting up their internal procedures, but it is still closedto the public. No new dossiers are being registered and no travel appointments arebeing scheduled. The good news is that an unofficial date has beenannounced for when it will re-open to the public, and that date isJune 20, 2006. The new State Department for Adoption projects that on that date theywill begin accepting new dossiers and assigning travel appointments.At this time there is still no information whether the new office willalter any of the policies that the old National Adoption Center had.We will have to wait for the new office to open to receive thatinformation.This was posted onhttp://www.commonwealthadoption.org/international-adoption-ukraine.php