Worth every penny

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 !!!