Nikolai and Viktor have been home more than 4 months now, and I have finally got round to going through all of the receipts etc from our adoption.
I hope this will be useful to families considering adoption, in some way !
Initial expenses - $11,979.50
Holt International (home study) - $3600
Reece's Rainbow - $275
Hand of Help in Adoption (Facilitation) - $900
CCAI (Hague Oversight/Primary Provider) - $3900
Fingerprints/Background Checks - $514.50
Apostilles for Dossier Documents - $875.00
Marriage/Birth Certificates - $224
Medical (Physicals/labs - co-pays) - $335
USCIS - $1030
Postage - $155.75
Misc (Books, printer paper/ink etc) - $170
First Trip - July 2018 (7 nights) - $17,989
Flights for 3 (From Sioux Falls, SD - Kiev) - $2913
Facilitation team ($8500 plus $2500 for 2nd child) - $11,000
Food - $227
Accommodation - $465
Facilitator/Driver - $250
Trains (to and from Kiev/Zaporizhia) - $200
Misc - $42
Flights for 3 (from Kiev - Sioux Falls) - $2892
Second Trip - August 2018 (5 nights) - $5202
Flights for 2 (from Sioux Falls - Dnipro) - $2270
Food - $93.00
Accommodation - $266.00
Facilitator/driver - $179.00
Misc - $36.00
Flights (from Zaporizhia - Sioux Falls) - $2358
Third Trip - Sept/Oct 2018 - (23 nights) - $9837
Flights for 2 (Minneapolis to Dnipro) - $2158
Food $370
Accommodation - $906
Facilitator/driver - $484
Train (Zap - Kiev) - $91
Misc - $71
Passports x 2 - $1000
Medicals x 2 - $460
Embassy (i600 for 2nd child plus 2 x visas) - $1425
Flights for 4 (Kiev - Minneapolis) - $2872
Adoption Total - $45,007.50
They were worth every single penny !!!
