The SDA (State Dept. for Adoptions) for the Ukrainain government, has been not been granting appointments for the last month. They have been processing applications that were submitted ( at least those like ours that were submitted in October) but while the SDA transfers authority to a new govt. agency called the Ministry of Social Policy, they are not able to grant appointments. The appointments are when parents are able to request a chance to visit orphan children they may want to adopt and begin the adoption process in Ukraine.
Stopping apointments is creating a backlog of cases, so we may not get our appointment this year.
Probably everyone adopting right now very much wants their appointment to be by mid December because this is the last year that the US govt. has a generous tax rebate for adoptions.The tax rebate changes next year as there are budget cuts. In order to get the rebate for Nadia and Ruslan, we would need to have our appointment and our court date before Dec. 31st.
The tax rebate makes the adoption feasable, especially when adopting two more kids within one year of adopting the first one.
All that to say, our facilitator is meeting with an official on Monday to request a December Appointment for us since we know who we want to adopt, the kids have already said yes and because they are older kids. All of that should keep the process simple.
Please pray that God will smooth the way for us to get an early December Appointment and help us finish the process in 2011.
Thanks!
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