Dear Members of the American Adoption Community Interested in Ukraine:

With this public notice, we would like to provide updated information about Ukraine's intercountry adoption program and address some rumors, which are being circulated in the US adoption community.

We have been receiving a number of emails from prospective adoptive parents, asking whether the adoption appointments have been scheduled yet.  Several adoptive parents ask about the most recent adoption rumor, according to which no appointments will be scheduled until the problem of the missing post-adoption reports has been resolved. 

In fact, the State Department for Adoption and Protection of Rights of the Child (SDAPRC) has already completed the schedule of adoption appointments for September, 2006.  There are 25 American families on this list.  This list is posted in the public area of the SDAPRC. It contains only the registration numbers (without any names) within the range between 14000 to 15000 series.  The invitation letters have already been mailed to the prospective adoptive parents.  If you have the registration numbers in the specified range and have not received the invitation yet, you may contact our Adoption Unit and we will check if your number is indeed scheduled for September. Adoptive parents who have the other registration numbers will be scheduled for the next months.  The schedule of adoption appointments for October is not completed yet.

The high rate of non-compliance with the Ukrainian PPR requirements remains to be the most serious argument against resumption of acceptance of new adoption dossiers from non-Ukrainian citizens.  We encourage all American parents of Ukrainian adopted children to submit their annual reports to the respective Embassy or Consulate General of Ukraine on time.  Please realize that adoptive parent's failure to do so puts in danger the future of Ukraine-US intercountry adoption program and thus prevents many Ukrainian children from finding loving parents.