No news yet

We still have not heard news from our facilitator in Ukraine about our dossier. We hope that it was submitted and that there were no problems. If it was submitted yesterday, we should receive our registration number and travel date within the next 20 days (assuming that all of our documents pass their inspection).

Based on other families in this process, the current average time between dossier submission and SDA appointment is 10-12 weeks. That would put us in Ukraine in mid-May. No appointment lists have been posted, but there have been a handful of people posting that they have been given March and April appointments - with December and January submissions going in for March appointments, and February submissions going in for April appointments....so we can hope and pray that we go in early May.

According to rumors, and based on the above posts from other families, it is being said that the SDA is issuing appoinments in exact order that the dossiers are submitted - submitted, not registered. Which means that: they are not making any exceptions for "special" cases like older or known kids, and that depending on how many dossiers are "rejected" during their 20 day review, our travel date could fluctuate as our number moves up the list. Basically when the dossier is submitted you are assigned a registration number right away, the SDA has 20 days to review your dossier completely, at the end of that 20 days you dossier is either accepted and registered (you keep your reg number) or it is rejected and returned to you (and you lose that reg number), and for those accepted the appointment for travel is set. I don't know how much flexability families have in requesting a travel date - ie. if they have some big event or something on such and such date, can they have a later appointment? We know of a fellow adoptive family in this situation due to one of their biological kid's graduation....so let's all hope that there is some flexability for them.

No other news on any of the girls. My Russian speaking friend here in ATL is out of town, but I hope we can get together with her when she gets back so we can call SnowWhite and Belle - Cinderella's director will not let us call her, so I am trying to arrange a friend in Kyiv to visit her and her friends.