could pick up the girls on Saturday when we talked to her a few weeks ago,
and now she is saying that the judge won't allow her to pick up the court
decree until Monday morning....so she will get it first thing that morning,
get the girls new birth certificates, and then we can pick up both girls
Monday after lunch. Thankfully, one silver lining is that Katya's orphanage
is going to bring her back to Pantievka from the camp for us to pick her up,
so at least we don't have to drive the 2-3 hours to that camp in Svitlovosk.
Then hopefully it is only a few days to get the girls new passports, then a
few days in kyiv, then home. For those of you just getting to Ukraine, or
still waiting for your appointment, please be aware that the passport
issuance procedure has changed - the new passports are no longer issued at
the local level for adopted kids. They are all sent to Kyiv for issuing. The
way it used to work is that an office in kyiv printed blank passport books,
and sent those to the regions to type in the new info. Most regions had a
ready supply of these blank passports....but now that the policy has
changed, the central authority has taken back all the blank passports. Plus,
the Kyiv office was not issuing passports at all for a month or so in the
beginning of summer, so there are a few families who have been quite delayed
by this. I know Beth and Steve Tu were/are still delayed by this.
After we got back to Kgrad from Kharkiv, we took a taxi to our apartment,
slept, and then had Victor drive us to visit Marina. We visited with her for
a few hours, then came back to Kgrad. We also found out that she has a
cousin at this same camp, named Olexander. He is 16 unfortunately. There is
another boy at this camp that I really like, but he is also older - 15. He
looks 12 though.
There is also this little 3-4 yr old boy at Andrey's orphanage who is paper
ready for adoption. He is completely healthy except that he has no eyes.
They were removed due to some congenital cancer he had. Andrey says he is
one of the smartest, talkative and empathetic kids at the orphanage.
Here are photos from Kharkiv and Katya.
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