Curiosity Questions regarding International Adoptions

rachelmichellek · 08-13-2006, 01:00 AM

Hey, does anyone on here know if there is a webpage or other resource that charts out the average expense for adopting from various countries, say maybe a chart that ranks the whole range, from county with the lowest average adoption cost, to county with highest average adoption cost (FROM that country TO USA)? Or, are there some countries that are just known to be more or less expensive?

Also am seeking info on which countries require that you travel for the adoption, and which don't.

Wondering if this basic information was ever concisely collected all in one web page, somewhere. If there is no collection of overview pages like this, well, maybe there should be.

~Traci~ · 08-13-2006, 05:43 PM

Here's the adoption.com link. I didn't know it was there before until I started searching for you, thanks for making me search b/c it's interesting to me to know this stuff!

http://international.adoption.com/fo...ion-costs.html

I can tell you thought that these are only the adoption costs & NOT travel costs. Our China adoption is costing a lot more than the $9,000 they estimate. I think the $9,000 is just the adoption costs alone from our figures that we've paid & what I've estimated so far.

adoption.com also has requirements (ie: travel, restrictions, etc) for some countries (like they don't have the "new" countries info).

I haven't found any other website unless you go to different agency websites to see how much they say for different countries.

HTH's
Traci