March 23, 2007

Dear Members of American Adoption Community Interested in Ukraine :

On February 24, 2007 the State Department for Adoption and Protection of the Rights of the Child (SDAPRC) issued the Decree #16.  This Decree approves the numbers of the new adoption dossiers from foreign countries, which can be accepted by the SDAPRC during the calendar year 2007.   The result of the decree is that the 558 dossier submissions have been allocated to parents from the U.S. for calendar year 2007.  This number was arrived at using a complex mathematical formula devised by the SDAPRC.  The U.S. remains on top of the list of foreign countries adopting from Ukraine, followed by Italy (494 dossiers) and Spain (380 dossiers).