The Adoption Center in Kiev is the sole legal authority for international adoption in Ukraine, that maintains the national database of children available for adoption. Under the Ukrainian law adoption is an independent process, that is why you cannot find any ukraine adoption agency. Even if you find such adoption agency, it is illegal and ban by Civil law.
After you are approved and registered as a candidate for adoption of an orphan from Ukraine, you should be invited to visit the National Adoption Center in Ukraine. During an interview with the Center's inspector you will be shown files of children of age and gender you've requested, that are available for international adoption. For the one that you choose, you receive a Permission Letter to visit an orphanage, where the child is placed. It can be anywhere in the country unless you make a specific and reasonable request. Along with the letter of referral, you will be given your documents, bound, numbered, sealed, and signed by an official in charge of the National Adoption Center, with a separate sheet specifying the number of pages and the prospective parents' registration file code.
The Adoption Center sends two standard letters to adopting parents: (1) notification regarding the date and registration number of a dossier and a suggested month for an appointment, and, (2) an official invitation for an appointment with the Adoption Center, indicating a specific date and time Adoption Center representatives will not meet with prospective adopting parents who arrive in Ukraine without an appointment or on a day other than when they are scheduled for an appointment
/Abstract from a Guide for U.S. citizens who plan to adopt a child in Ukraine, US Department of State, April 2004/
Adoption Center
27-A Taras Shevchenko Boulevard
Kiev, Ukraine 252032
Tel (011) (38-044) 246-54-31/32/37/49
Fax (011) (38-044) 246-54-52/62
PROSPECTIVE ADOPTING PARENTS CAN VISIT THE CENTER BY APPOINTMENTS ONLY.
VISITORS MUST HAVE THEIR I.D.
Tomaschuk Maria Vladimirovna
Room 315, tel. (011) - (38-044) 246-5452
Visiting hours:
Monday - Wednesday
Friday
3:00 AM - 5:00 PM
3:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Malysheva Olga Pavlovna
Room 314, tel. (011) - (38-044) 246-5449
Visiting hours:
Tuesday
Thursday
3:00 AM - 5:00 PM
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
RECEPTION DESK:
Gluschenko Elena Anatolivna
Room 314, tel. (011) - (38-044) 246-5449
Visiting hours:
Tuesday
Thursday
3:00 AM - 5:00 PM
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
DOCUMENTS REGISTRATION:
DOCUMENTS CERTIFICATION:
CORRESPONDENCE:
OFFICE MEETING HOUR:
OFFICE CLEANUP HOUR:
Room 310
Monday - Friday 4 PM - 5 PM
Room 314
Friday 3 PM - 4 PM
Room 315
Monday - Friday 3 PM - 5:30 PM
Friday 9:15 AM - 10:30 AM
last Thursday of the month
4 PM - 5 PM
GENERAL INFORMATION:
The Adoption Center was established in 1996. The Center is a state establishment which promotes placement of orphans and children deprived of parents' care into families of Ukrainian citizens or foreigners by the way of adoption.
With the aim to assure coordination of actions of central and local executive power bodies in deciding questions as to adoption by foreigners of orphan children and children deprived of parents' care, an effective protection of rights and interests of such children, by Edict of President of Ukraine of January 17, 2002 (No.34A2002) there was established the Interdepartmental Commission on adoption by foreigners of children who are citizens of Ukraine. The organizational support of activity of the Interdepartmental Commission is effected by the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine. The chairman of the Commission is ex officio the Minister of Education and Science of Ukraine; members of the Commission are deputy ministers of interested ministries and officials of other central executive power bodies.
The organizational-legal mechanism of adoption of children in Ukraine is based on principles meeting international requirements, namely:
every child is entitled to upbringing in a family;
priority is assigned to the national adoption;
international adoption is considered an alternative only when adoption of a child at the motherland is impossible;
all questions of the adoption procedure are to be decided with adherence to the current legislation of Ukraine.
A public reception room to which citizens of Ukraine can apply every day has been set up at the Adoption Center. All information on work of the Adoption Center is placed in the site of the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine, where it is indicated that priority is granted to citizens of Ukraine.