Both parents must appear in the Russian court in the city where the child lives. It takes approximately ten to fourteen days to finalize the international Russian adoption process, inclusive of your trip to the American Embassy in Moscow to get a US visa for your child. The length of time spent in Russia depends on the region where the orphanage is located. Both parents must go to court. All children available for international Ukrainian adoption must be registered with a National Data Bank in Kiev and all international Ukrainian adoptions are finalized by the Ukrainian court in the city where the orphanage is located.
Ukrainian judges require both parents to appear in court for a hearing.
In Bulgaria we work with local attorneys. We must first get permissions from the Ministries and then the attorney presents your case to the court for international adoption. You are not required to be present at the adoption hearing. The Bulgarian law allows a representative of Russian Adoption Facilitation Service to escort a child from Bulgaria to the United States. We will help you decide which country in Eastern Europe is the right choice for you, locate a child for you, submit the child's medical information, photographs and a video tape to you, prepare your international adoption dossier for submission to the government of the country of the child's origin, translate and legalize your dossier, coordinate and facilitate the international adoption process, act as a liaison between you, the orphanage, the foreign source, our local adoption coordinators and the foreign government officials until the adoption is finalized in the country of the child's origin and you are back home with your adopted child.