Our dossier was successfully submitted yesterday, March 12. Only 7 were accepted by the SDA yesterday as Americans are already above the new "quota" for the quarter. In the new law it mentioned these quotas, but no one knew what the quotas would be or how they would work. So, it seems that Americans can submit only 140 per quarter - 560 per year. So far this year, 183 have already been accepted - so they are 43 over quota and therefore shutting the doors until April.
The SDA now has 20 days to review our dossier in detail and decide if it meets their standards. They already looked it over for 40 minutes yesterday (usually they only look at it for 15 minutes!) so hopefully that means they are ahead of the game in checking ours over! Once its approved (please continue to pray for this), they will assign us an appointment/travel date. We think it will be late May for this, based on other people's appointments who have submitted in late February. That means we will be home with Cinderella and Belle hopefully in mid-June.
We are also still working on bringing SnowWhite here for hosting - Heart 2 Heart with Ukraine has agreed to bring SnowWhite and 4 other girls from her orphanage for only $1700 each and the program will last from June 25 through August 25. Much cheaper and longer than the Frontier Horizons program! If we are not back from Ukraine by June 25, my friends in New York who are hosting the other girls will host SnowWhite until we get back.
This is the first time I'm using email to update my blog, so I hope it works. I can't access the blogger website due to wacky problems with our new server at work.
This is our new blog to document our journey to adopt three older Ukrainian girls. We live in Atlanta, Georgia USA
