1) If it is possible
please make such documents as:
Employment statements
Medical forms
Police clearances
Passports
Home study and license of agency and/or lecense of social
worker.
IN ONE FOLDER, you don’t need a separate notarization
and apostille for these documents. They can be attached
together, notarized by the same notary and one apostille for
both documents would be enough. If the documents are signed by
different notaries, please, list them both on apostille and
attach one apostille.
2) NOTE: Agency license and
social worker’s license can be attach to the home study. All
other letters can also be attached in one document. This way
you will only need one apostille for. See explanation below.
Here is list of documents for Ukrainian dossier
What can be bundle together and have one apostile.
1) Medical forms (husband and wife) can be bundle together + license of doctor (if applicable).
2) Employment veryfication (husband and wife) can be bundle together
3) Home study, and license of agency and social worker, can be bundle together
4) Police clearance (husband and wife) can be bundle together.
5) Copy of Passports
What CAN'T be bundle together
1) I-171 form (permission for kid/s visa)
2) Petition to adopt
3) Letter of obligation
4) Copy of marriage certificate
5) POA's
6) Appointment letter
7) Temporary adress change letter.
8) Notarized consent for adoption from a second adopting parent, if only one of the parents will be adopting the child.
9) In addition to these documents, the SDAPRC recommends to submit the documents to confirm that the prospective adoptive parents own a residence, or have a rental agreement. Ukrainian local courts usually request such documents in adoption cases.
All U.S. documents submitted to the Ukrainian government/court must bear the seal of the issuing office and an apostille affixed by the state's Secretary of State (an apostille is a special seal applied to a document to certify that a document is a true copy of an original). The SDAPRC requires that all the documents submitted in the adoption dossier remain valid for at least another six months from the date they are submitted to the SDAPRC (according to Ukrainian law, all official documents remain valid for 12 months; the only exception is made for I-171H or
I-797C Approval Notices, considered valid for 18 months from the I-600A approval date).
The SDAPRC will de-register all adoption dossiers, even if one document has expired without a prior notice.
3) Petition to adopt,
Letter of Obligation and Power of Attorney SHOULD contain your
full name, passport number, its issue date and agency;
family’s full address and home phone number. Letter of
Obligation should also contain the address of the Ukrainian
Consulate in the USA.
4) For families that live
outside of the USA or one applicant is not an American
citizen: the letter of obligation should include full
addresses of Ukrainian Consulate in the USA and the country of
current residence. For example, if the mother is a US citizen
and the father is German citizen, letter of obligation should
contain Ukrainian Consulate addresses in both US and Germany.
Also, don’t forget your own address in both USA and the
country of residence put in letter of obligation and petition
to adopt.
5) VERY IMPORTANT NOTE FOR FAMILIES LIVING
ABROAD: TWO POLICE CLEARANCES NEEDED FROM THE STATE OF
RESIDENCE IN THE USA AND THE COUNTRY OF CURRENT RESIDENCE.
6) If one of parents has
criminal record, we cannot predict if they will be approved by
NAC for adoption. Both scenarios are possible.
7) Please
be careful and attentively read every document. Often the
notaries make stupid mistakes in dates, for instance, put
2003 instead of 2004. Then it is a big problem.
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