This fee covers travel within Ukraine, hotel, adoption fees, facilitator, court and legal fees. The adoptive parents are required to travel to the Ukraine to choose their child and to attend the court hearing in order to finalize the adoption. One trip from the Ukraine to the US Embassy in Warsaw, Poland is required in order to apply for the child s immigrant visa. The approximate time for travel is three to four weeks stay in the Ukraine. Married couples and single men and women are eligible to adopt.
Families get to view records and video tapes of eligible children while in the Ukraine.
The adoption is final within the Ukraine. Return to the ICIA Home Page .