| There are thousands of beautiful children available for
international
adoption
throughout Ukraine. All children available for adoption live in
fair conditions in government supervised orphanages. Orphanage
caregivers tend to be very warm, loving individuals who truly have
the best interests of the children at heart.
Ukraine
children are generally
grouped by age, so developmentally, they are with their peer
groups. |
Before becoming available for referral for international adoption,
Ukraine
children must be listed on a national registry for 12 months.
According to Ukrainian government regulations, children that are
available for adoption by foreigners range from approximately 16 months
and up.
Our Ukraine team has more that ten years experience building families
through adoption.
• Healthy children available
• Flexible requirements
• Short waiting time
• Previous divorce acceptable
• Siblings, older children, and special needs available
• Married couples
• Ages 24-47 may adopt
• Must be married two years
• Parents who already have children are welcome
• The children are in orphanages throughout Ukraine
• Healthy children from 16 months and up
• Only children with special needs can be placed under 16 months
of age
• Most children were abandoned at birth due to economic hardship
or loss of parental rights
• The ethnic background of most children is Caucasian
• Adoptive families are allowed to identify the age and gender of
the child they wish to adopt.
• Sibling groups and unrelated children are available for adoption
at the same time.
• For the past 8 years, the majority of the children that have been
placed with assistance of our facilitators in Ukraine have been less
than 2.5 years of age.
• Application to Grace International
• Registration & Contract to Grace International
• Home study, USCIS, and dossier preparation
• Documents translated and sent to the NAC in Ukraine
• NAC reviews the dossier and issues a registration number (this
takes approximately one month)
• 2-5 months after issuance of registration number family flies to
Ukraine
• Family is shown pictures and medical information on children
• Family meets child
• Three weeks later child is adopted
• Most families remain in Ukraine for three weeks
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