Independent adoption from Ukraine

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Receiving travel documents and US visa for your adopted child


After positive and final court decision, you can take a child from an orphanage to Kiev, where you should receive necessary travel documents for a child, including Birth Certificate, International Passport, etc. Your facilitator will be able to receive almost all of them as well.

In order to get US visa for your adopted child, you will have to submit required documents to the US Embassy in Kiev. The documents shall be translated from Ukrainian into English and properly legalized / apostilled in Ukraine. An approval from US consular services for your child to enter the United States can be received within 2-3 days.

Then you say Good-Buy to Ukraine, and board an airplane with your new child for a happy flight home...

In general terms, this is the essence of an adoption process in Ukraine.