Aftermath
We’ve been home for over two months now. I doubt anyone is reading this anymore. The embassy visit was fairly routine. They were very nice there. You have to go through security and if you bring a backpack like I did they have to x-ray it and make sure you’re not hiding something in it. You also can’t bring cell phones or camera’s into the Embassy so leave them outside. Some people said the embassy had a big line of people round it. When we went they had put up a tent and all of the people were outside in the tent so there were no crowds present when we went. Basically we called them and got an appointment. When we showed up they asked us a few basic questions like:
Why are you adopting?
Why from Ukraine?
Why an older child?
How many kids do you currently have?
And not much more than that. You then have to come back around 3pm-4pm and pick up your paper work and child’s visa. They give you a packet to give to U.S. customs when you get to the United States. Some people think that packet is for Ukrainian Customs. It’s not. The Ukrainian Customs people only want to see the original court decree saying you are the legal parent of so and so…
So that part of our adoption process is over. It wasn’t nearly as bad as I thought it would be. I really liked Ukraine. It was a nice place. Some people weren’t very friendly and others were. I think you find that every where you go though including America. We plan on going back there someday. Vica would like to visit her friends and we would like to see Ukraine without the stress of an adoption. Iv’e heard that they are trying to change the law so that total adoption time is 30 days from the time you submit your Dossier to the time you have custody of your child. That would be very food for the children there. We ended up only adopting one child because of the length of stay it would have taken to adopt two.
Since we have come home we have:
Registered Vica with the Ukrainian Embassy
Filed court papers to get a Utah Birth Certificate for Vica
Got a Utah Birth Certificate for Vica
Still need to get a SSN for her.
Registered her in school and have been helping her do homework ever since.
Vica has adjusted very well so far. She is learning English very quickly and is doing very well in school. I think she has all A’s or –A’s in school except in one class. It’s late and I’ve been working a very long time today. So I will end this post and hopefully get some time to add more later.
Kyle
Why are you adopting?
Why from Ukraine?
Why an older child?
How many kids do you currently have?
And not much more than that. You then have to come back around 3pm-4pm and pick up your paper work and child’s visa. They give you a packet to give to U.S. customs when you get to the United States. Some people think that packet is for Ukrainian Customs. It’s not. The Ukrainian Customs people only want to see the original court decree saying you are the legal parent of so and so…
So that part of our adoption process is over. It wasn’t nearly as bad as I thought it would be. I really liked Ukraine. It was a nice place. Some people weren’t very friendly and others were. I think you find that every where you go though including America. We plan on going back there someday. Vica would like to visit her friends and we would like to see Ukraine without the stress of an adoption. Iv’e heard that they are trying to change the law so that total adoption time is 30 days from the time you submit your Dossier to the time you have custody of your child. That would be very food for the children there. We ended up only adopting one child because of the length of stay it would have taken to adopt two.
Since we have come home we have:
Registered Vica with the Ukrainian Embassy
Filed court papers to get a Utah Birth Certificate for Vica
Got a Utah Birth Certificate for Vica
Still need to get a SSN for her.
Registered her in school and have been helping her do homework ever since.
Vica has adjusted very well so far. She is learning English very quickly and is doing very well in school. I think she has all A’s or –A’s in school except in one class. It’s late and I’ve been working a very long time today. So I will end this post and hopefully get some time to add more later.
Kyle
posted by Kyle at 12:50 AM
1 Comments:
Just so you know...there are people still reading your blog :-) I found it the other day on American ExPat and have enjoyed reading it! Hope all is well for you guys :-)
Diana Esplin
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