There are several factors you should be aware of when considering international adoption. Cost of adoption and legal rights are the two major ones.
Income criteria – When considering the expansion of family by any way, birth or adoption, at some point every future parent comes in the thoughts to the issue of money. Some of us are more fortunate and the decisions are made easier but let’s face the fact: to raise a child requires a solid financial base nowadays. Following this logic, in any adoption process prospective parents are evaluated according to their State criteria, which include the financial capacity of the applying family to receive and care about the orphan. In fact, for the domestic adoptions in the United States the financial status of a prospective family comes in reality roughly as one of the most determining criteria to the successful and quick placement of a child. Often, after initial state pre-approval, the biological mother is choosing the family among candidates. For the international adoption your income is not in such importance, for candidates are not competing with each other. In the international adoption prospective families do not have to prove whose home is better for a child; the requirement is simply to show that the family has all what a child may need for proper living and development. Thus, the international adoptions come across as a more real and achievable way for most of the adoptive families in America.
Legal rights – International adoption also has security of adoptive parents rights. Once the adoption is legally complete, there is no issue of biological relatives claiming the child back at any point of time.
Age of desired child and timeline of adoption process– If you are absolutely determined to adopt a baby, if you can qualify for domestic placement in your state, and you are ready to wait possibly for years for a chance to adopt, then we could recommend looking into adoption from the USA.
International adoption process has more predictable timeline (most of the adoptions from Ukraine are done within 6 months to a year), but it is not possible to adopt a baby. Due to the government system and international laws in adoption, countries, which are partners in adoption conventions, are required to give some time for an orphan to be eligible only for their citizens. Only after a certain time since initial registration, if not adopted, children can be placed into foreign families.
Cost of International Adoption process:
Average: The average international adoption can be described in several parts cost wise.
Part 1 is the preparation of the documents on the US side (home study cost, CIS processing costs, and dossier preparation with your agency consultant). Part 2 is the final process of adoption abroad (legal representative, interpreters, court fees etc), and Part 3 is your travel expenses (air tickets, in-country travel, food, logging etc).
Depending of the agency fees and what they include, an average adoption process from Ukraine costs from $20,000 to 40,000 for an adoption of a single child. Most of the time the travel expenses go on top of even that.
Cost of adoption from Ukraine with AdoptionWAY: Our goal is to serve many. Many children that is…. Even in recession time, and even more so, more orphan kids are waiting for a long awaited mommy to walk into the room.
Our agency has always been standing for an affordable adoption, and at this time we found the way to even lower the expenses. We understand that dramatic changes in global economy make it tough for a lot of families to get through the adoption process with the costs as they are in this field. We want to make it easier for everyone so that the beautiful spirit of child adoption can survive and overcome any difficult time.
Even though international adoption cannot be done without expenses at all, we manage your adoption in such a way, which allows you to receive the best value of the timeliest and most effective services and save money at the same time.
If you would like to find out more details and exact cost, please feel free to apply for it via the free electronic application on the page designated for the program.
After you fill in the application, along with other important info, you will receive the information about the terms and conditions; services, fee schedule, detailing included and travel expenses you can anticipate. The fact that the overall cost lower and payments are spread through the stages of the process makes your adoption even more affordable.
Also, consider the Financial Resources that are available to you in the form on government aid, tax breaks, subsidies and so on. This inforamtion is available at our Cost of adoption page.