The waiting game

Now that our dossier is in Ukraine, we just have to wait until our facilitator is able to submit it to the State Department of Adoptions. During the last several weeks they accepted only 5-7 dossiers a week from American families. Knowing that there are more than 200 families waiting in line to submit, it may be a long time to get to the front of the line. Most facilitators have multiple places in line. Some of them don't even have the dossiers to submit yet, but they are trying to be proactive so that by the time they get to the front of the line they will have a dossier to submit. Some of them already have a dossier ready, but the place in line is far from the front. So it varies in each individual case. Our facilitator has several places in line (I don't know the numbers though), so I really hope he'll be able to submit it soon before our documents start to expire. This past Monday several people pushed their way ahead of the line and submitted the dossiers out of order. There was even a physical confrontation there!

Also, I heard that a director of SDA was finally appointed yesterday. The previous director resigned 2 months ago, and since then SDA was operating with interim director and understaffed. I feel optimistic that the new director is the good news for all prospective adoptive parents :)