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Just thought our friends might be interested in the type of information that the US Embassy provides prospective adoptive parents. This one includes some of the most specific information about the kids available for international adoption that I've seen.

Notice on SDAPRC Unused Quotas October 23, 2008 Ukraine: Unused Quotas On October 14, 2008 the Ministry for Family, Youth and Sports published official Order #3899 approving revised procedures for submission of new adoption dossiers from foreign citizens in the fourth quarter of 2008.

The annual adoption dossiers quota for 2008 previously had been set at 1,453. Although all of these were booked within the first months of this year, not all of these families actually submitted dossiers. As a result, the SDAPRC (State Department for Adoptions and Protection of the Rights of the Child) has now opened the unused slots for new adoption dossiers. These slots are not an increase in the annual quota; rather they still fall under the annual limit of 1,453 dossiers. This number is not subdivided by country or by specific categories of children.

The SDAPRC resumed acceptance of new dossiers on October 14th, 2008 and will continue accepting dossiers for 2008 until November 27th, 2008. Order #3899 includes two attachments, one of them presenting the number of children available for intercountry adoptions, sorted by age and health condition, as of September 1, 2008. Please note that these statistics are independent of annual quota set by the Ministry (noted above), but provide a useful overview of ages and health condition of children available for adoption. The second attachment is the schedule for submission of adoption dossiers from foreign adoptive parents. Both documents are below.


Attachment 1

Analysis of the numbers of children available for intercountry adoptions according to their age and health condition(based on the information from the central databank as of September 1, 2008)

Under 3 Year olds
Healthy 0
Serious 551
Total 551

3-5 Year Olds
Healthy 109
Serious 1,215
Total 1,324

6-11 Year Olds
Healthy 3,011
Serious 2,397
Total 5,408

12-17 Year Olds
Healthy 11,337
Serious 3,081
Total 14,408

All children
Healthy 14,457
Serious 7,244
Total 21,701

Healthy=Healthy/Correctible medical conditions
Serious=Serious probably not correctible medical conditions

Ludmyla Volynets, Director of the SDAPRC


Attachment 2

Schedule for submission of the dossiers from foreign adoptive parents in the IV-th quarter of 2008
Day of the week Recommendation for the child’s age from the competent authority of the country of residence of adoptive parents*

Monday: Dossiers for children under 6 years old and those that have no specific limits for the child’s age

Tuesday: Dossiers for children 6-11 years old

Wednesday:

Thursday: Dossiers for children 12 years and older

Ludmyla Volynets,Director of the SDAPRC

*For U.S. citizens this is the recommendation of the social worker in the homestudy


Please do not hesitate to contact us if you have any additional questions. Sincerely, Adoption Unit/Immigrant Visa Section Consular Section American Embassy Kyiv, Ukraine
Tel: 38-044-490-4422
Fax:38-044-490-4570
Kyivadoptions@state.gov
http://kyiv.usembassy.gov/amcit_adoptions_eng.html

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