Our Home Study has been e-mailed to Sergiy to begin translation at last! Thanks to Lisa our social worker for her hard hours spent compiling all our information into the necessary format! She did so quickly and professionally - we highly recommend A New Beginnings Adoption Agency. They've been friendly, more than considerate to our busy schedule, very knowledgeable and speedy with our requests.
John and I received our new fees to include adopting both girls, instead of one like we believed in the beginning. Sergiy, our attorney in Ukraine, has graciously lowered costs on his side to help us take care of the special fees that will be associated with adopting Ola, a Russian born orphan who was abandoned in the Ukraine as a toddler. Since a Russian birth certificate is in existence, an international treaty of sorts will need to be established after our adoption is finalized. We will have to pay someone to go about Russian and get her birth certificate changed and recognized as our child. This has considerable costs related to it and several hard weeks of traveling and work on the agent's behalf.
In light of this, I'm going to post information about a savings account our church has set up for us, and anyone else in our congregation who is pursuing adoption. This account was established so that individuals or businesses can donate and receive a tax donation for their contribution. All funds are set in this specific account. When the time comes for our need, the church will "gift" us the funds necessary. It's a win for all sides!
Keeping you posted as we go.
God bless,
Jenn
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