Archive for February, 2010

FRUA news

Thursday, February 25th, 2010
FRUA (Families with Russian & Ukrainian Adoptions) has just started a Southern California Chapter.  Along with this forming the chapter they have initiated a SoCal yahoo chat group.  I encourage any family that have adopted from Russia or Ukraine or those in the process to consider joining this support group.
Warm regards,
Brent E. Yoder, LCSW
Executive Director

Adoption Options Receives Accreditation from Russia

Thursday, February 11th, 2010

Adoption Options has great news to share with all of you.  We finally received our agency accreditation from Russia after 8 years of hard struggle.  We are pleased to announce that on February 1, 2010 Adoption Options, Inc. was officially accredited by the Ministry of Education in Russian Federation. 

For all of our families that are currently with completed dossiers nothing will change.  For those preparing for their dossiers, there will be slightly different paperwork that will be completed. 

We will continue to work with the Frank Foundation CAI as we always have.  We share a common mission with Frank Foundation CAI that binds us closely together.  While receiving our accreditation will not directly impact you, it does strengthen our political position in Russia. I hope that you share our excitement with this achievement and know that this strengthens our ability to help you complete your goal of adopting a Russian child.

 Warm regards, 

Brent E. Yoder, LCSW

Executive Director

Update on Kyrgyzstan program

Tuesday, February 2nd, 2010

Dear Kyrgyzstan Families:

We have contacted the General Consul at the Kyrgyzstan embassy for an update on the adoption status in Kyrgyzstan.  She told us again that everything is prepared for adoptions to start again and that they do plan on continuing the program but that there was no date set for implimentation.  The 65 families that were suspended in the middle of their adoptions have not progressed regardless of political pressure applied by US authorities.  The Joint Council has initiated a new request for appeal to Kyrgyzstan authorities and for political pressure to finalize these 65 adoptions.

The bottom line is that we are still in a suspended state waiting for the Kyrgyzstan government to begin implimentation.  I am sorry that I do not have something more definitive to report.  We will keep monitoring the situation and let you know if there are any progress.  Again if anyone would like to switch to one of our other countries of Russia or Kazakhstan we will assist you without any additional agency fee.  Please let me know if you have any questions.

Warm regards,

 Brent E. Yoder, LCSW

Executive Director