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Monday, March 31, 2008

BUDGET! REPOST

TAIWAN ADOPTION COSTS

I am going to type the fees rundown
below.
Agency Adoption fees
$500-$1000 App Fee (not included in the fees below
$14,000-17,900 (healthy infant program,
price depends on orphanage your child resides in and
which agency you sign with. Price may vary by
individual program within each agency )
The payments will happen sorta like this, When
you get
referral of child and sign the contracts they are sent
to your agencyfrom Teco 7,000 or so will be due.
The rest is
due a few weeks before travel to get your child.
What is included in these fees:
Legal document translation and preparation
Agency adoption coordination and expenses
In Country Coordination
Orphanage and Humanitarian Donations
(In the following breakdown I will refer to
"first half" fees as
usual fees incurred before referral or during
wait for travel call)
Not included:
$1,000-3700 Homestudy (First half)
(Some include the finalization and
Post placement visits in this
amount ask)
$670 INS (First half)
$70-80 fingerprinting INS (first half)
$380 Child Visa fees (last half)
$125-180 Passports for 2
$3000 Plane tickets (last half)
$400-1000 Hotel (last half)
$300-400 food (last half)
$550 in country travel if child resides in
Tainan (last half)
$260-500 Agency Post placement coordination
(last half)
$100-300 Misc. expenses such as birth certs,
TECO, and
such (first half)
$300-1000 Doctors fees for physicals possibly not
coverd by insurance and shots for travel.
(first half)
$100-200 For shipping gifts and donations to new
child (first half)
$1000-3000 finalization fees (last half)
I think by time all was done and said we spent around
25k-27k.

Independent adoption Fees
$200-500 orphanage donation
1000-3700 Home study (some include the finalization
and post
Placement visits in this amount, ask)
$670 INS
$70-80 fingerprinting through INS
$125-180 Passports for 2 (higher end is for expedited)
$380 Child's Visa fees
$3000 Plane tickets (last half)
$400-1000 Hotel (last half)
$300-400 food (last half)
$200-550 in country travel if child resides in another
(last half)
000 Doctors appointments not required for independent.
$200 in mailings to and from Taiwan
$170 Translation of documents
$1000-3000 in finalization if not covered by your
Homestudy.
Estimated (HIGH END of independent is 13800)
Normal total should be around..... 8000-10000

These are rough estiments. Please plug in your agency
or adoption coordinator numbers and such in order to
get a more realistic number. Of course your hotel,
food and flight are somewhat at your mercy and or
the mercy of the people that you are working with
for your travel arrangements.

2 comments:

Unknown said...

I keep coming back to the cost factor of your agency. More unpredictability maybe with when a referral comes but I am very curious to see how your whole experience goes. Dh's number one reason NOT to adopt again is the cost so... I would really, really love another boy :) I also like the Ethiopia programs.
But some days I am not even sure I want to keep the two kids I've got ;)
Wishing you lots of positive thoughts and prayers as always!

Anonymous said...

Hello,
My husband and I are going to try and pursue adoption through Morning Light. I was wondering if I could ask you some ?'s through email. If you are agreeable to this please email me at oswald3@comcast.net . Thanks, DeAnne