- After registering with Adoption Services in Edmonton,
prospective adoptive parents choose a local adoption agency to complete a home
study and take an international adoption course. Sponsorship forms from
Citizenship & Immigration Canada are filled out in advance which are then
forwarded to the Canadian Embassy in Kiev. A 'dossier' of documents for the
Adoption Center in Kiev (known on the internet as the AC) is collected by
prospective adoptive parents which need to be notarized and translated locally,
then legalized at the Ukrainian Consulate of Canada. The dossier is sent
through Adoption Services in Edmonton to the Canadian Embassy in Kiev who
forward it to the AC in Kiev for processing and approval. Once approved and
invited to come to the AC, the prospective parents must fly to Ukraine and meet
at the AC to gain permission to travel to an orphanage in Ukraine where parents
choose a child available for adoption. Once a child is chosen, parents must
first take the child to a doctor specified by the Canadian Embassy for a
thorough checkup. The results are sent to another special doctor in Vienna who
must approve them before the child will be admitted into Canada. A court
hearing is held in Ukraine to legalize the adoption, after which parents return
to Kiev to finalize the adoption paperwork and collect new birth certificates,
travel visas, and other necessary paperwork. Parents go to the Canadian Embassy
to complete the Immigration documents and return home a new family!
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