Get Him Home: December 2014

Thursday, December 11, 2014

Just a little midnight fun! Making a trip to Chicago tomorrow to get apostilles for a chunk of our dossier! So could this be considered third trimester in our paper pregnancy?!?! We're getting closer, D!

Cost Breakdown

Why Does It Cost So Much?

$3,000 Homestudy and expenses

$200 Grant's passport renewal

$100 Gerry's passport

$500 Bobbie and Grant’s medicals/vaccinations/evaluations/training classes

$250 Transportation costs in U.S. for gathering documents

$1,610 USCIS, i-600, and fingerprinting (to get U.S. Customs and Immigration permission)

$350 Courier services – to send documents to EE

$5,000 Round trip airfare for Grant, Bobbie and Gerry (approximate cost)

$3,360 Lodging ($60/night x 8 weeks)

$2,240 Food/Other supplies ($40/day x 8 weeks)

$14,000 - Review, translation, and legal expenses for preparing the dossier (in-country documents) for submission to the child welfare authorities in the girls' country. Legal and court fees in-country (including expedition), translation of children's documents required for U.S. Embassy, orphanage donations

$3,500 Transportation in country (overnight trains, taxi to visit the orphanage, driver costs to collect documents across the regions)

$1,200 passports for "Loveday" and "Lora"

$1,150 Visas and Medicals for "Loveday" and "Lora"

$1,500 Loveday and Lora's flights HOME!

$1,500 Re-adoption legal expenses through U.S. court system

Total = $39,460

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Thursday, December 11, 2014

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