What are our costs for international adoption and what does it go for?
The cost to adopt internationally is about $13,000.00-30,000.00 total costs, about the same or less than adopting a child or infant domestically. These fees are not paid in one lump sum, but paid as you move along in the adoption process. Consider just the overhead of operating an office. Multiply that by 2 because you will be dealing with at least 2 offices with business expenses, legal staff and operating staff. Then you have drivers and transportation on behalf of yourself as your facilitator runs around doing preadoptive paperwork. Sometimes they have to travel great distances to file paperwork and get the ball rolling. Facilitation agencies spend a much money on fed-ex and communication with the US based office. Office supplies are more expensive and harder to come by overseas. The dossier is many pages and takes translator hours of non-stop work to translate and type. The costs overseas are numerous and add up. The services that the family pays for are well worth all that is paid
