More Waiting

The following is a copy from the Yahoo board today. Olya has been a reliable source, so I am lead to believe this is correct. It’s similar to what I found out yesterday, so it does not look like we will be going to Ukraine until the spring. On the good side, the weather will be nicer and we won’t have to worry about caring all of our heavy winter clothing!!

Yesterday, on March 15, at the end of the day, the Cabinet of Ministers signed a decree officially establishing the new Department on Adoption and Children's Rights. The decree is expected to be published within a day or two. I will be able to provide a link. Until then, I can forward the text of the decree's draft to all interested persons. Regardless of the new Department's creation, the present Adoption Center will not issue appointments for April. The last day for appointments under the present AC is March 30 so that the arriving families can have ample time to finalize their adoptions by May 1. This deadline has been set a few weeks ago. If you are kept on standby given hope of being able to travel in April, I would question the intent and/or credibility of a person giving you such an ungrounded possibility. Olya

More Rumors….

The rumors on the boards are that a new law was passed in Ukraine that now has only given jurisdiction to the old NAC through the end of March. The New Ministry takes over May 1st. It seems that the are planning on using the entire month of April for the transition to the new organization. So I would assume that there would be no more appointments given out until May 1st at the earliest.
Since we had to reschedule my flight, I booked it for May 9th. Hopefully I can make this work in my favor. From what I know it usually takes people a minimum of a week to get flights arranged and since I have a flight arranged, maybe, just maybe that will give me an upper hand to get an appointment on May 11th or 12th!! Wouldn’t that be JUST WONDERFUL!!!!!