We shared with you the list of expenses we will incur as we adopt this time around. What I haven't shared is our progress and our continued need. I wanted to give all of you who are keeping up with us and praying for us an update!
- Homestudy Fee: $2,000 PAID 11/15
- Required Education/Class: $115 PAID 11/15
- Medical Exams/Blood work: $500
- Apostilles and Document Fees: $350 Funded 11/27
- Application free, donation, promise trust for Reece's Rainbow: $1,275 PAID 11/5
- Shipping for Paperwork to Kyiv: $115 x 2 = $230
- US Immigration (USCIS): $890
- Facilitator Expenses: $9,000 (facilitator fees, document expenses, and travel/lodging for our facilitator)
- Orphanage Donation: $500 (up to $1,000 depending)
- Medical Exam and Visa: $500 {Almost there ... need $240 more!}
- Passport Fees: $400 (or more ... the last one cost us $1200!)
- Birth Certificate Expenses: $250
- Lodging/Transport/Food in Kyiv (both times): $500
- Lodging in Region: $1,400 (we will try to save money here, but this is what we spent last time and prices are comparable)
- Food in Region: $600 (we loved local markets last time!)
- Transportation in Region: $20/day for 5 weeks = $700 (we were given this number from other families adopting from the same orphanage; it is the cost to go from the city to the orphanage and back, twice daily, for visits with our angel).
- Trains to region and back to Kyiv: $800
- Airfare: $10,000
TOTAL: $30,010 - Paid:$3,390
- Funded:$350
- Next Goal:$260 out of $500 raised
- Total Needed:$26,270
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