Adopting a child from another country who is HIV positive requires no special visa beyond the usual IR-3 or IR-4 visas. However, you will want to be prepared for the adoption, getting through the process of bringing a child home, and the care of a such a child. We will next discuss the day-to-day issues of raising an HIV+ child.

Next week, our China facilitator Sabrina Chang and Russia coordinator Kate Zyubenko will be in South Carolina at two adoption seminars, one in Lake Wylie (Nov. 18, register here) and the other in Moore (Nov. 20, register here). These are very special events featuring the China Special Needs Program, the Russia program, and the Ukraine/Hosting [...]

At these two events, Lena Brovko and Oksana Sydorchuk of Circle of Friends. Lena and Oksana will talk about how Christian camps and overseas hosting programs have made a difference in the life of Ukrainian orphans.

Carolina Hope for Orphans is organizing a Christmas Tour for Ukrainian Orphans; the children will be in the States from December 26 to January 9, and host families in South Carolina (or anywhere within a 2-hour driving distance of Greenville, SC) are needed.

We just made the following announcement on our Ukraine Adoption page: On October 14, 2008 the Ministry for Family, Youth and Sports published official Order #3899 approving revised procedures for submission of new adoption dossiers from foreign citizens in the fourth quarter of 2008. The annual adoption dossiers quota for 2008 had previously been set [...]

The U.S. Embassy in Kyiv, Ukraine, has instituted new procedures this month for issuing immigrant visas to Ukrainian children adopted by U.S. citizens. (For more information about Carolina Hope’s Ukraine adoption program, go to our Ukraine page.) This is to inform you that effective September 4, 2007, the procedure to submit documents for visas for [...]