The process to adopt from Ukraine is very long, tedious and nerve-wrecking. It involves many steps, a lot of paperwork and a lot of red tape. One of the frequent posters on the FRUA (Families for Russian and Ukrainian Adoptions) chat board wrote her own humorous version of the process and gave her permission to use it in my blog. Thank you, Beth2!
Here it is:
- First, you have a homestudy done and do a lot of paperwork to get approval from your state.
- Then you do a lot of paperwork that costs a lot of money and takes a ridiculously long time to get approval from our federal government.
- Then you send a bunch of paperwork to Ukraine to get translated and you wait for it to get submitted to the Ukrainian adoption officials in Kiev.
- When it finally gets submitted, you wait for your initial approval in Ukraine. If you get that approval, you get an appointment to come to Kiev. You have to go when they tell you to go. You don't get to decide the appointment time.
- At your appointment, you get a referral for a child or a sibling group of children according to your homestudy. You go to the region where the kids are and seek local approval to adopt them, praying for a court date within the near future.
- If all goes well in court, you wait 10 more days and do more paperwork within the Ukrainian system. When that's done, you go back to Kiev, get medical exams for the kids for our government and give our government even more money to get visas allowing you to bring the kids home.
Then you come home and the real adventure begins.
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