Bringing Raisa Home

Hi there. Our names are Oleg and Nataliya, we were born in Odessa, Ukraine and immigrated to upstate NY in 1996. We are high school sweethearts and have been married for 21 years. We have 2 wonderful bio kids - 20-year old son Alex and a 6-year old daughter Victoria. We started our international adoption journey in September 2006, and in January 2008 we finally brought home our 10 (now 11)-year daughter Rachel from our hometown Odessa in Ukraine.

Tuesday, June 19, 2007

Adoption blogs

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As a PAP (acronym for prospective adoptive parents) I spend a lot of time reading adoption blogs of people who already completed their adopt...
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Tuesday, June 12, 2007

Waiting

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Nothing new on the adoption front. I heard the SDA isn't accepting any new dossiers from Americans until July 2nd - they already met the...
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Thursday, May 31, 2007

No news

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We are still waiting for our dossier to be submitted to the State Department of Adoptions. It's hard not knowing when we'll be going...
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Wednesday, May 23, 2007

Adoption process in Ukraine

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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...
Friday, May 18, 2007

The waiting game

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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. Du...
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Monday, May 14, 2007

Delivered!

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Friday, May 11, 2007

Dossier in Paris

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It's so neat to be able to track the Fedex package. This morning our dossier departed the Fedex location in Paris, France. I wish I was ...
Wednesday, May 9, 2007

What's next?

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Now we wait. And wait. And wait again. Basically once our facilitator receives our dossier, he should submit it to SDA. This sounds easy, bu...
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