When you come to Ukraine for your adoption your facilitator will meet you at the
airport, will help you with your luggage and escort to the apartment. From our side
we can assure you that you will have good and comfortable apartments or room at
the hotel. (The price for your apartment/room and your preferences can be discussed
with the facilitator and booked for you before your arrival to Ukraine)
Your facilitator will escort you to the Department of Adoption and will help you
to find good, healthy child.
Adoptive applicants will be presented with information including photos and basic
medical information on several Ukrainian children who are available for adoption
at that time.
Adoptive parents will select a child from the list of kids that they would like
to meet to consider adopting. Then the adoptive family and our Ukrainian facilitator
will travel to the region where the child lives. (The trip to the region can be
made by train, bus or car) Our facilitator usually drives all his families, that
can save a lot of time and it is more comfortable when you travel with your luggage
to be in a car).
But you will have options!!!
Family will be escorted to the orphanage to meet their particular child. The adoptive
applicants will have an opportunity to ask any questions and get any information
about the child's health, his biological family, and child’s daily life, his/her
background, educational or developmental history. If you decide to accept the child
referral then the Ukrainian adoption proceedings can begin. If you decide not to
proceed with this Ukrainian child, your facilitator will request another appointment
for you. Families are permitted to have up to three appointments at the Ministry
of Social Policy of Ukraine.
If you like a child and decided to proceed with the adoption, your facilitator will
start putting and preparing your child's adoption paperwork together and will arrange
the court date. Once the paperwork is ready you will have court in the region .
Both parents must be present for the adoption hearing. (one parent can be present
at the court or adopt by himelf/hereft if you prepare the doucments for one parent
traveling)! For more details you can contact us and we will explaine you!
The process of preparing the paperwork and going through the court proceedings will
take approximately 2 weeks. After the official Ukrainian court procedures there
will be 10 day waiting period. At this time you can travel back home and be back
for the end of the proces or can stay with your child. After 10 days waiting period
you will get official court decree and will make final steps in your adoption process
to bring your Ukrainian child home. Having official court decree you can get passport,
new birth certificate and new security number for your child.
We would like to tell you that our facilitator after 20 years of working with the
adoptions knows many judges and many social workers. When the official part and
all the documents are finished in the region, family and the child/ren will go back
to Kiev to get medical examination at the Central Hospital for child's physical.
After the medical examination you will be escorted to the US Consulate in Kiev,
Ukraine for the exit interview and getting visa for your adopted child.
When you get visa you can travel home with your child.
After arriving home you have to register your child as a family member. You will
have a month to register the child in the US Consulate of Ukraine in your country.
When all the adoption procedures have been completed, close the case in your region.
Do not forget to provide Progress reports regarding the living conditions and upbringing
of our adopted child(ren) to the said Ukrainian Embassy once each year for first
three years, then one report every third year until the adopted child(ren) attain
the age of eighteen (18) years per addendum 5 of the Regulation #905 of the Cabinet
of Ministers of Ukraine; Each year you must submit a follow-up report about your
child in the Consulate.
When the adopted child reaches the age of 18, he or she will have to choose between
American or Ukrainian nationality.