Adoption in Ukraine -- How to adopt in Ukraine

[] home page Three years of experience in helping couples from the USA, Canada and Germany in their independent adoptions We offer an inexpensive program and you decide on your own how your spending will look like | read this! | procedure | legal info | dossier | useful links | mail us | Contact us now: info@adoption-ukraine.de Information on adoption procedure Disclaimer: the information on this Web page is general. Please, contact us if you would like to have detailed info on legal regulation and specific stages of adoption procedure in Ukraine. The current adoption law states that NO commercial intermediaries may take part in the process of adoption and that there will be NO fees except those for court filing, notarial and translation and similar services. Please, take into consideration that we are offering only TRANSLATION AND GUIDING services to your INDEPENDENT adoption in Ukraine. According to the provision of the Resolution on Adoption issued by the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine we act on behalf of couples wishing to adopt as their representatives. Legal information - You may find here a brief description of all legal matters concerning adoption in Ukraine. We will guide you through all of the adoption procedure stages providing as much care as you may need. We are doing only one case per month, so you will have 100% of our attention. Ok, here is the adoption procedure in a nutshell: the children available for adoption: Children classified healthy are available from about 2 years of age. Some younger children are available classified with medical conditions (from about 6 months). Two children may be adopted in the same court hearing. According to Ukrainian law adopted children should keep Ukrainian citizenship until 18 years of age . eligibility of parents : There is one main criteria for parents - they should be deemed physically, financially and morally able to raise the child to adulthood. Your dossier presented to the National Adoption Center should clearly indicate that. Single parents and previously divorced may adopt in Ukraine. procedure: Parents must travel to Ukraine personally in order to identify their child and to attend the court hearing. In order to identify a child for adoption, the parents must first have their application and dossier approved by the National Adoption Center in Kyiv. Our friends from Germany will help you with the dossier preparation - they will give any info you might need for that. Here is a usual schedule for adoption in Ukraine. Please, take into consideration that the time frame varies dependent on many factors. The total adoption process in Ukraine takes approximately 3 weeks*. Steps toward the goal: Arrive Kyiv airport. We meet you at airport. Check into a hotel. Short orientation tour, city tour. Visit National Adoption Center with us & meet Director Tamara Kunko. Look at files, select child to visit Travel to orphanage city with one of us Visit orphanage, select child (or return to National Adoption Center if you prefer to visit other children) Prepare paperwork for court hearing, set court date Receive approval papers for court Court Hearing Apply for new birth certificate. Apply for diplomatic passport for child. Pick up child. Pick up new passport. Return to Kyiv with child. Legalization procedure for a new documents of child. Visit your home country Embassy (in some cases must be 10 days after court hearing), apply for visa for child. Obtain visa and have a flight home. * IMPORTANT: in some regions of Ukraine it is impossible to waive 1 month appeal waiting period after the court hearing, so you need to wait this month (and more one week for legalization of documents for a child) in Ukraine or you can go back to your country and in 40 days turn back to Ukraine to take away your adopted child\ren. top | read this! | procedure | legal info | dossier | useful links | mail us | _______________________________________________________________________________________________