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 adopted [...]