Understanding the fees & schedule of our adoption

ITEM	FEE AMOUNT	PAYMENT DUE
Application Fee	$250	Due with Application Approval
1st Agency Fee	$2,500	Due with Policy Documents
2nd Agency fee	$2,500	Due when Dossier is Submitted to IAN
Dossier Authentication	$525	Due when Dossier is Submitted to IAN
Home Study Review	$300	Due when HS is submitted for review
Post Adoption Liability	$300	Due when Dossier is submitted to IAN
Uganda Country Fee	$9,500	Due with Child Referral Acceptance
In Country Fee	$700	Due with Child Referral Acceptance
Validation Fee	$300	Due with Child Referral Acceptance
TOTAL	$16,875	Total Due Before Court Appointment can be set in Uganda

For those of you who are curious about the costs of adoption and the process, I thought this would help.  The items that have been crossed out have already been paid and completed! You are probably also wondering how we plan to come up with all this money, and that is where you come in, our family and friends.  This is a giant leap of faith for us.  We are fully relying on God to send laborers across our path to bring this child home.  Thanks to everyone who is investing into this little girl's future! James 1:27 tells us that "True devotion, the kind that is pure and faultless before God the Father, is this: to care for orphans and widows in their difficulties and to keep the world from contaminating us" (CEB). God is Good!!

ITEM	ESTIMATED FEE AMOUNT	PAYABLE TO:
USCIS-Filing Fee	$720	USCIS with Application I-600A
USCIS-Fingerprints	$80 per person	USCIS for Biometric Fingerprints
Child’s Visa	$404 per child	US Embassy in Uganda
Home study	$950	William Pierce Adoption Serives
Post adoption & finalizing	$2,200
Travel Costs (2 trips)	$6,500-8,500	Airline, hotel, drivers, food, etc.
Document Expenses	varies from state to state