
Forming a family through international adoption.
Today we got an early start and went to the internet cafe to hire a girl to retype the court decree that terminated parental rights. Luda was afraid that we'd get to Yalta and the secretary would not want to spend the time retyping this and delay things a few days. So basically we were going to do her job for her. We went from there to pick up a letter from the inspector that lets us visit Roman's first orphanage in Yalta. We need to get a document from them that lists his time in that orphanage. After we got the letter we swung by the internet cafe and picked up the new decree, then we headed to the other orphanage. We spent about an hour there and got the document showing when Roman entered that orphanage and left.
Finally we headed to Yalta. Luda was right. We got to the court house and the secretary didn't want to help us. Luda got ticked off and went to the judge to complain. The judge made the secretary help us. All she had to do was pull the original decree from the file and verify that what we retyped was the same thing. Next we got the judge to sign and stamp the new original decree. When that was done we headed back to Simferopol to give the last of the documents to the inspector. The inspector found a few errors on one document so we went to the internet cafe again and hired the same person to fix it. Then we went back to the inspector to review the docs again. The inspector had Luda check the letter of conclusion since she is better at speaking/writing Ukrainian. Luda found errors so that would have to be retyped by the inspector. We hope to finish up the documents tomorrow.
We had a long day of running around. We grabbed dinner about 6:00 and then headed to the apartment for the evening.