Contents:
General provisions
Registration with National Adoption Center
National Adoption Center Database
Documents Required for Registration with the Adoption Center
Grounds for Denial to Register
Meeting a Child
Court Hearing
Obtaining a Travel Document
Consular Registration of Adopted Ukrainian children
Passport Renewal of Adopted Ukrainian children
Annual report on adopted child from Ukraine
General provisions
The matters of International Adoption in Ukraine are adjusted by such legislative acts as follow:
- Family Code of Ukraine;
- "The Order of transfer of children, who are the citizens of Ukraine, on adoption to the citizens of
Ukraine and foreign citizens and realization of the control behind conditions of their residing in new
families" , authorized by the Decision of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine on August 28, 2003, #1377
The adoption of children will be carried out under the application of person wishing to adopt the child in
the judicial order. The presence of the prospective adoptive parents at the Court is obligatory.
The registration of the foreign citizens, who wish to adopt children, is conducted by the National Adoption
Center (NAC) at the Ministry of Education of Ukraine extremely.
THERE IS NO LEGAL PROCEDURE FOR ADOPTING THROUGH GUARDIANSHIP IN UKRAINE.
THERE ARE NO UKRAINIAN ADOPTION FEES EXCEPT THOSE FOR COURT FILING, NOTARIAL,
TRANSLATION AND SIMILAR SERVICES.
REGISTRATION WITH NATIONAL ADOPTION CENTER
Foreigners wishing to adopt a child from Ukraine must register with the National Adoption Center (see
Documentary Requirements below) to begin adoption proceedings in Ukraine. The National Adoption
Center is operated as part of the Ministry of Education and is the ONLY legal Ukrainian authority that
maintains a database of children available and qualified for both domestic and international adoptions.
The National Adoption Center is involved in international adoptions from the initial to the final stage, e.g.
from the moment prospective parents apply for registration to the point when, once a child has been
identified, the case is forwarded to a court for adjudication.
The National Adoption Center processes the documents submitted by adopting parents and enters them
into their database within twenty working days. Once an application is approved, the prospective
adopting parents will receive an invitation to visit the Adoption Center. When adopting parents arrive in
Ukraine, the Adoption Center shows them information about orphans available for international adoption
within the parents' specified age range. The Center then issues a letter of referral to allow the
prospective parents to visit orphanages to meet, select, and establish contact with a child. Along with the
letter of referral, adopting parents will be given their documents, bound, numbered, sealed, and signed
by an official in charge of the Adoption Center, with a separate sheet specifying the number of pages and
the prospective parents' registration file code.
Adoption Center in Kiev, Ukraine
27-A Taras Shevchenko Boulevard
Kiev, Ukraine 252032
Tel # (380)(44) 246-54-31/32/37/49
Fax # (380)(44) 246-5452/62
Please keep in mind that translators or interpreters are not available on the staff of the Adoption Center,
so callers or visitors have to be prepared to speak Ukrainian, or have their own interpreters.
The intermediary commercial activity concerning adoption of children, transfer them under guardianship
or on education in families of the citizens of Ukraine or citizens of other states is forbidden, and there will
be NO fees except those for court filing, notarial and translation and similar services.
IMPORTANT: The temporary changes in the procedures of the Center for Child Adoption.
The Ministry of Education of Ukraine informs about the recent changes in the procedures of the Center
for Child Adoption in Ukraine.
According to the information received by the Embassy, the Center for Child Adoption has introduced new
temporary regulations on registration of prospective adoptive parents' dossiers for adoption and placing
them on a waiting list.
It is a temporary procedure, which will be used until the Ukrainian Government approves the final
regulation.
According to these regulations, after official registration of the adoption dossiers, prospective adoptive
parents will be notified by mail by the Center for Child Adoption that they have been registered with the
Center for Child Adoption. After a family receives a letter to this effect, they should inform the Center for
Child Adoption about the desired appointment date. The Center for Child Adoption will then schedule
them for the next available dates and send invitations directly to the families. Upon receiving invitations
adoptive parents should confirm the appointment date via mail, fax or e-mail. The Center for Child
Adoption plans to serve ten families per day.
ADOPTION CENTER DATABASE
The National Adoption Center recommends prospective adopting parents who wish to adopt two or more
children to submit a separate, authenticated dossier for each child. However, submission of two or more
dossiers is not a guarantee adopting parents will allowed to adopt two or more children. Current adoption
policy is for adopting parents to adopt one child at a time, unless you adopt a sibling group.
Adoption Center representatives will not meet with prospective adopting parents who arrive in Ukraine
without an appointment or on a day other than when they are scheduled for an appointment.
Effective January 1, 2004, the NAC no longer releases information about adopting parents' registration
numbers and dates of their appointments to third parties, including to facilitators or others who have
obtained the parents' Power of Attorney. All communication between the Center and prospective
adopting parents is conducted only by direct exchange of official letters. The NAC sends two standard
letters to adopting parents:
(1) notification regarding the date and registration number of a dossier and a suggested month for an
appointment, and,
(2) an official invitation for an appointment with the NAC, indicating a specific date and time.
The Center currently uses normal postal mail when sending these letters, which can delay notification by
three or more weeks. In order to expedite and facilitate communication, the NAC advises that families may
wish to include one or two prepaid, self-addressed international express mail envelopes (DHS or FedEx)
with their dossier. These envelopes are used by the NAC for mailing registration and appointment letters
to the families. The inclusion of these envelopes with a dossier is completely optional. The
absence/presence of prepaid envelopes has no relation to expediting the actual process of registration
of a dossier or the scheduling of an appointment date.
DOCUMENTS REQUIRED FOR REGISTRATION WITH THE ADOPTION CENTER
Ukrainian law states that foreign citizens wishing to adopt Ukrainian children must submit a petition to the
Adoption Center, requesting to be registered as prospective adoptive parents and to be permitted to visit
orphanages in order to select, meet and establish contact with an orphan.
The following documents must be part of the adoption application submitted to the Ukrainian adoption
authority: :
1) Home Study , issued by a competent authority in the adopting parents' country, attesting to their
eligibility, specifying their housing and living conditions, containing their curriculum vitae, and other
information. If a home study is issued by a non-governmental entity (a private agency or social worker), a
copy of the license authorizing this entity to conduct pre-adoption reviews must be attached.
2) Entrance and permanent residence permit for the adopted child, issued by the competent
authority in the adopting parents' country.
3) Proof of income . Bank statements showing the adopting parents' yearly income, tax returns and a
statement from adopting parents' employer indicating salary. To avoid confusion, please do NOT copy
blank pages of tax returns .
4) Bill of health . Adopting parents are given a specific medical form to complete. Adopting parents
must demonstrate that they are specifically not suffering from any kind of psychiatric, communicable,
internal, skin or venereal diseases. There must also be a statement that parents are not drug addicts,
and that parents are free from AIDS and syphilis. Medical certificates for prospective adopting parents
should be issued on official letterhead of the medical office where the examination took place.
Alternatively, the document can bear a stamp/seal of approving clinic/doctor, if available. The doctor's
signature must be notarized. If letterheads/seals are not available, the NAC requests that a copy of the
doctor's medical license be attached to the form.
5) Copy of the marriage certificate (if applicants are a married couple) .
6) Copies of the passports or other identification papers of prospective adopting parents. A copy of
the Permanent Resident Cards should be included, if parents are not citizens of Singapore.
7) "No criminal record" statement supplied by a competent authority for each adopting parent,
attesting to his/her having no criminal record at the State level. If the criminal background check
statement is issued by the local sheriff/police office (not State authorities), it should clearly indicate that
each prospective adopting parent has no criminal record in the state of his/her residence .
8) Adoptive parents' commitment to register their adopted child with the Ukrainian Embassy or
Consulate in their new home country within one month of the completion of adoption. Adopting parents
also agree to supply information about the adopted child's living conditions and educational progress to
the Ukrainian Consular Office at least annually during the first 3 years following the adoption. Under
Ukrainian law, an adopted child remains a Ukrainian citizen until age 18, at which time the child can
decide to remain a Ukrainian citizen .
Please note that all eight documents must be separate documents; one cannot be part of another. The
documents remain valid for one year from the date of issuance. The Adoption Center prefers that the
documents be translated in Singapore, but understands that it may be difficult to find qualified
translators. Therefore, the Center allows facilitators to come to the Center with a properly notarized,
authenticated and translated power of attorney to take the documents to have them translated and
notarized locally .
Each individual document from the set of documents that are required by Ukrainian authorities in
connection with the adoption of a child from Ukraine must be legalized separately* by the Consular
Section of the Embassy of Ukraine in the Republic of Singapore. The legalization of the documents must
be done after they are authenticated by the Commissioners for Oaths of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of
the Republic of Singapore.
The non reimbursable fee for legalization by the Consular Section of Ukraine in the Republic of
Singapore of each such document is S$ 100 SGD. The non reimbursable fee for the verification by the
Ukrainian consular office of the accuracy of the translation from English into Ukrainian of each such
document done by a certified translator is S$ 100 SGD.
For additional information about authentication procedures, see the "Authentication of documents" page
of this site.
GROUNDS FOR DENIAL TO REGISTER
No standards have been established by law for approval or denial of prospective parents' applications to
register. Eligibility is determined through a personal interview at the Adoption Center.
However, violation of adoption procedures and regulations (e.g. visiting an orphanage without the
Center's permission, meeting and selecting children for adoption prior to registration, not arriving for an
interview, etc.) can be considered as grounds for denial to be registered with the Adoption Center. In
case of registration denial, prospective parents must be notified of the denial in writing and all the
documents they submit should be returned to them.
MEETING A CHILD
Once the Adoption Center issues permission for prospective parents to visit orphanages, parents may go
and meet a child, check medical records and establish personal contact with a child.
COURT HEARING
It is important to mention that, in compliance with recent changes in and amendments to the Family and
Marriage Code of Ukraine, the power to approve or deny an adoption is solely with an individual judge.
The judge's decision, in turn, will be based on a review of various documents of each individual adoption
case during the court hearing, where adoptive parents have to be present. The law states that adoptive
parents must attend the hearing. The Adoption Center has stated that this requirement will be strictly
enforced following the recent resolution of the Supreme Court of Ukraine. Adopting parents must attend
the hearing. In cases where one of the parents cannot be present at the hearing due to a compelling
reason (e.g. major surgery, disability etc.), a judge may permit one parent to provide a power of attorney
to another parent.
The set of documents for the adoption case is presented to the judge after being carefully examined by
the Adoption Center. As a general rule, the judge's decision is announced and issued the day of the
hearing. However, unless the judge grants an "immediate execution," the decision does not take effect for
one month. Such waivers are granted only when there is clear evidence that a delay in executing the
court decision is not in the best interest of the child (for example, damage to health). During the
one-month period, the adoption can be appealed. Once the decision takes effect, the new adopting
parents are granted parental rights and legal responsibility for the child.
OBTAINING A TRAVEL DOCUMENT
RAGS (Ukrainian Office of Vital Records) will issue a post-adoption certificate of birth for an adopted child
based on the final court decree and the original (pre-adoption) birth certificate only. Please remember
that the pre-adoption birth certificate is not be returned to the adopting parents. Therefore, please make
sure to that you make a copy before handing it over to RAGS authorities.
Adopting parents should make sure that there are no discrepancies in the spelling of names of the
parents and children in the court decree. If noticed, please ask the court clerk to correct them
immediately. Failure to do so may cause delays in issuing the post-adoption birth certificate and in
authenticating Ukrainian documents.
Once the post-adoption birth certificate is obtained, parents may apply for a passport for their child at the
local VVIR (Ukrainian Office of Visas and Registration) .
Parents are required to present a written and notarized statement requesting that the travel document be
issued. The post-adoption birth certificate, final court decree, and 4 passport-size photos of the child
have to be submitted along with the statement.
The new name of the adopted child in the travel document is spelled in English transliterated from
Ukrainian, so it may look different from what appears on the parents' passport. There is no need for
concern as long as the child's name in Ukrainian on the travel document is the same as in the court
decree. However, parents can request that the correct English spelling be noted on the blank page in the
passport.
At the time the passport is issued, a special, mandatory stamp is put in it showing that the child is
departing Ukraine for permanent residence abroad. It is called a "PMP-stamp" in Ukrainian. Although
under Ukrainian law immigration authorities have up to 10 working days to issue passports or travel
documents for adopted children, they are often issued before then, especially if the child requires
medical care.
Consular Registration of Adopted Ukrainian children
Dear Adoptive Parent(s)!
In accordance with Ukrainian Law, the Embassy should include your child (children) adopted in Ukraine,
into the list of Ukrainian citizens residing in Singapore.
In order to process appropriate paperwork you should present to the Embassy following documents:
* Completed registration form;
* Your child(ren)'s original passport(s) (Travel document of a child);
* A copy of the Ukrainian Court's Decree on adoption (in Ukrainian).
In case you change your place of residence, you are also required to inform the Embassy.
Please be advised that you should submit your application to the Ukrainian Embassy that has jurisdiction
over the region of your residence.
IMPORTANT: The Consular District (the area assigned to a Consular Post for the exercise of consular
functions - Article 1 of the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations and Optional Protocols, 04/24/1963)
of the Consulate General of Ukraine in Chicago
Dear Adoptive Parent(s)!
Please be informed that to apply for a new Ukrainian passport for your child(ren) you must submit to the
Embassy of Ukraine the following documents:
* Child's original passport (Travel Passport of a Child);
* Completed application form;
* 2 color passport-size pictures;
* Photocopy of the child's birth certificate;
* Photocopy of the child's Social Security card and Permanent Residence (if any) Card;
Annual Report on Adopted child from Ukraine
Dear Adoptive Parent(s)!
The Ukrainian legislation requires that adoptive parents provide the Ukrainian Embassy with annual
reports on adopted child (children).
Please be so kind as to send annual reports to the Ukrainian Embassy once a year for the first three
years after adoption, and then once every three years until the child reaches the age of 18.
The Embassy of Ukraine will be grateful for your detailed reports about adopted child's (children's) living
conditions and development and pictures of your family.
The form of annual report on adopted child from Ukraine.
Please fill it out and submit it to the Ukrainian Embassy that has jurisdiction over the district of your
residence.
Thank you for your time and cooperation.
Processing times, requirements and fees are subject to change without notice.
The information on this web-site is provided as a public service, but we cannot guarantee that the
information is current or accurate. Readers should verify the information before acting on it.
Last modified on August 5, 2004
General provisions
Registration with National Adoption Center
National Adoption Center Database
Documents Required for Registration with the Adoption Center
Grounds for Denial to Register
Meeting a Child
Court Hearing
Obtaining a Travel Document
Consular Registration of Adopted Ukrainian children
Passport Renewal of Adopted Ukrainian children
Annual report on adopted child from Ukraine
General provisions
The matters of International Adoption in Ukraine are adjusted by such legislative acts as follow:
- Family Code of Ukraine;
- "The Order of transfer of children, who are the citizens of Ukraine, on adoption to the citizens of
Ukraine and foreign citizens and realization of the control behind conditions of their residing in new
families" , authorized by the Decision of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine on August 28, 2003, #1377
The adoption of children will be carried out under the application of person wishing to adopt the child in
the judicial order. The presence of the prospective adoptive parents at the Court is obligatory.
The registration of the foreign citizens, who wish to adopt children, is conducted by the National Adoption
Center (NAC) at the Ministry of Education of Ukraine extremely.
THERE IS NO LEGAL PROCEDURE FOR ADOPTING THROUGH GUARDIANSHIP IN UKRAINE.
THERE ARE NO UKRAINIAN ADOPTION FEES EXCEPT THOSE FOR COURT FILING, NOTARIAL,
TRANSLATION AND SIMILAR SERVICES.
REGISTRATION WITH NATIONAL ADOPTION CENTER
Foreigners wishing to adopt a child from Ukraine must register with the National Adoption Center (see
Documentary Requirements below) to begin adoption proceedings in Ukraine. The National Adoption
Center is operated as part of the Ministry of Education and is the ONLY legal Ukrainian authority that
maintains a database of children available and qualified for both domestic and international adoptions.
The National Adoption Center is involved in international adoptions from the initial to the final stage, e.g.
from the moment prospective parents apply for registration to the point when, once a child has been
identified, the case is forwarded to a court for adjudication.
The National Adoption Center processes the documents submitted by adopting parents and enters them
into their database within twenty working days. Once an application is approved, the prospective
adopting parents will receive an invitation to visit the Adoption Center. When adopting parents arrive in
Ukraine, the Adoption Center shows them information about orphans available for international adoption
within the parents' specified age range. The Center then issues a letter of referral to allow the
prospective parents to visit orphanages to meet, select, and establish contact with a child. Along with the
letter of referral, adopting parents will be given their documents, bound, numbered, sealed, and signed
by an official in charge of the Adoption Center, with a separate sheet specifying the number of pages and
the prospective parents' registration file code.
Adoption Center in Kiev, Ukraine
27-A Taras Shevchenko Boulevard
Kiev, Ukraine 252032
Tel # (380)(44) 246-54-31/32/37/49
Fax # (380)(44) 246-5452/62
Please keep in mind that translators or interpreters are not available on the staff of the Adoption Center,
so callers or visitors have to be prepared to speak Ukrainian, or have their own interpreters.
The intermediary commercial activity concerning adoption of children, transfer them under guardianship
or on education in families of the citizens of Ukraine or citizens of other states is forbidden, and there will
be NO fees except those for court filing, notarial and translation and similar services.
IMPORTANT: The temporary changes in the procedures of the Center for Child Adoption.
The Ministry of Education of Ukraine informs about the recent changes in the procedures of the Center
for Child Adoption in Ukraine.
According to the information received by the Embassy, the Center for Child Adoption has introduced new
temporary regulations on registration of prospective adoptive parents' dossiers for adoption and placing
them on a waiting list.
It is a temporary procedure, which will be used until the Ukrainian Government approves the final
regulation.
According to these regulations, after official registration of the adoption dossiers, prospective adoptive
parents will be notified by mail by the Center for Child Adoption that they have been registered with the
Center for Child Adoption. After a family receives a letter to this effect, they should inform the Center for
Child Adoption about the desired appointment date. The Center for Child Adoption will then schedule
them for the next available dates and send invitations directly to the families. Upon receiving invitations
adoptive parents should confirm the appointment date via mail, fax or e-mail. The Center for Child
Adoption plans to serve ten families per day.
ADOPTION CENTER DATABASE
The National Adoption Center recommends prospective adopting parents who wish to adopt two or more
children to submit a separate, authenticated dossier for each child. However, submission of two or more
dossiers is not a guarantee adopting parents will allowed to adopt two or more children. Current adoption
policy is for adopting parents to adopt one child at a time, unless you adopt a sibling group.
Adoption Center representatives will not meet with prospective adopting parents who arrive in Ukraine
without an appointment or on a day other than when they are scheduled for an appointment.
Effective January 1, 2004, the NAC no longer releases information about adopting parents' registration
numbers and dates of their appointments to third parties, including to facilitators or others who have
obtained the parents' Power of Attorney. All communication between the Center and prospective
adopting parents is conducted only by direct exchange of official letters. The NAC sends two standard
letters to adopting parents:
(1) notification regarding the date and registration number of a dossier and a suggested month for an
appointment, and,
(2) an official invitation for an appointment with the NAC, indicating a specific date and time.
The Center currently uses normal postal mail when sending these letters, which can delay notification by
three or more weeks. In order to expedite and facilitate communication, the NAC advises that families may
wish to include one or two prepaid, self-addressed international express mail envelopes (DHS or FedEx)
with their dossier. These envelopes are used by the NAC for mailing registration and appointment letters
to the families. The inclusion of these envelopes with a dossier is completely optional. The
absence/presence of prepaid envelopes has no relation to expediting the actual process of registration
of a dossier or the scheduling of an appointment date.
DOCUMENTS REQUIRED FOR REGISTRATION WITH THE ADOPTION CENTER
Ukrainian law states that foreign citizens wishing to adopt Ukrainian children must submit a petition to the
Adoption Center, requesting to be registered as prospective adoptive parents and to be permitted to visit
orphanages in order to select, meet and establish contact with an orphan.
The following documents must be part of the adoption application submitted to the Ukrainian adoption
authority: :
1) Home Study , issued by a competent authority in the adopting parents' country, attesting to their
eligibility, specifying their housing and living conditions, containing their curriculum vitae, and other
information. If a home study is issued by a non-governmental entity (a private agency or social worker), a
copy of the license authorizing this entity to conduct pre-adoption reviews must be attached.
2) Entrance and permanent residence permit for the adopted child, issued by the competent
authority in the adopting parents' country.
3) Proof of income . Bank statements showing the adopting parents' yearly income, tax returns and a
statement from adopting parents' employer indicating salary. To avoid confusion, please do NOT copy
blank pages of tax returns .
4) Bill of health . Adopting parents are given a specific medical form to complete. Adopting parents
must demonstrate that they are specifically not suffering from any kind of psychiatric, communicable,
internal, skin or venereal diseases. There must also be a statement that parents are not drug addicts,
and that parents are free from AIDS and syphilis. Medical certificates for prospective adopting parents
should be issued on official letterhead of the medical office where the examination took place.
Alternatively, the document can bear a stamp/seal of approving clinic/doctor, if available. The doctor's
signature must be notarized. If letterheads/seals are not available, the NAC requests that a copy of the
doctor's medical license be attached to the form.
5) Copy of the marriage certificate (if applicants are a married couple) .
6) Copies of the passports or other identification papers of prospective adopting parents. A copy of
the Permanent Resident Cards should be included, if parents are not citizens of Singapore.
7) "No criminal record" statement supplied by a competent authority for each adopting parent,
attesting to his/her having no criminal record at the State level. If the criminal background check
statement is issued by the local sheriff/police office (not State authorities), it should clearly indicate that
each prospective adopting parent has no criminal record in the state of his/her residence .
8) Adoptive parents' commitment to register their adopted child with the Ukrainian Embassy or
Consulate in their new home country within one month of the completion of adoption. Adopting parents
also agree to supply information about the adopted child's living conditions and educational progress to
the Ukrainian Consular Office at least annually during the first 3 years following the adoption. Under
Ukrainian law, an adopted child remains a Ukrainian citizen until age 18, at which time the child can
decide to remain a Ukrainian citizen .
Please note that all eight documents must be separate documents; one cannot be part of another. The
documents remain valid for one year from the date of issuance. The Adoption Center prefers that the
documents be translated in Singapore, but understands that it may be difficult to find qualified
translators. Therefore, the Center allows facilitators to come to the Center with a properly notarized,
authenticated and translated power of attorney to take the documents to have them translated and
notarized locally .
Each individual document from the set of documents that are required by Ukrainian authorities in
connection with the adoption of a child from Ukraine must be legalized separately* by the Consular
Section of the Embassy of Ukraine in the Republic of Singapore. The legalization of the documents must
be done after they are authenticated by the Commissioners for Oaths of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of
the Republic of Singapore.
The non reimbursable fee for legalization by the Consular Section of Ukraine in the Republic of
Singapore of each such document is S$ 100 SGD. The non reimbursable fee for the verification by the
Ukrainian consular office of the accuracy of the translation from English into Ukrainian of each such
document done by a certified translator is S$ 100 SGD.
For additional information about authentication procedures, see the "Authentication of documents" page
of this site.
GROUNDS FOR DENIAL TO REGISTER
No standards have been established by law for approval or denial of prospective parents' applications to
register. Eligibility is determined through a personal interview at the Adoption Center.
However, violation of adoption procedures and regulations (e.g. visiting an orphanage without the
Center's permission, meeting and selecting children for adoption prior to registration, not arriving for an
interview, etc.) can be considered as grounds for denial to be registered with the Adoption Center. In
case of registration denial, prospective parents must be notified of the denial in writing and all the
documents they submit should be returned to them.
MEETING A CHILD
Once the Adoption Center issues permission for prospective parents to visit orphanages, parents may go
and meet a child, check medical records and establish personal contact with a child.
COURT HEARING
It is important to mention that, in compliance with recent changes in and amendments to the Family and
Marriage Code of Ukraine, the power to approve or deny an adoption is solely with an individual judge.
The judge's decision, in turn, will be based on a review of various documents of each individual adoption
case during the court hearing, where adoptive parents have to be present. The law states that adoptive
parents must attend the hearing. The Adoption Center has stated that this requirement will be strictly
enforced following the recent resolution of the Supreme Court of Ukraine. Adopting parents must attend
the hearing. In cases where one of the parents cannot be present at the hearing due to a compelling
reason (e.g. major surgery, disability etc.), a judge may permit one parent to provide a power of attorney
to another parent.
The set of documents for the adoption case is presented to the judge after being carefully examined by
the Adoption Center. As a general rule, the judge's decision is announced and issued the day of the
hearing. However, unless the judge grants an "immediate execution," the decision does not take effect for
one month. Such waivers are granted only when there is clear evidence that a delay in executing the
court decision is not in the best interest of the child (for example, damage to health). During the
one-month period, the adoption can be appealed. Once the decision takes effect, the new adopting
parents are granted parental rights and legal responsibility for the child.
OBTAINING A TRAVEL DOCUMENT
RAGS (Ukrainian Office of Vital Records) will issue a post-adoption certificate of birth for an adopted child
based on the final court decree and the original (pre-adoption) birth certificate only. Please remember
that the pre-adoption birth certificate is not be returned to the adopting parents. Therefore, please make
sure to that you make a copy before handing it over to RAGS authorities.
Adopting parents should make sure that there are no discrepancies in the spelling of names of the
parents and children in the court decree. If noticed, please ask the court clerk to correct them
immediately. Failure to do so may cause delays in issuing the post-adoption birth certificate and in
authenticating Ukrainian documents.
Once the post-adoption birth certificate is obtained, parents may apply for a passport for their child at the
local VVIR (Ukrainian Office of Visas and Registration) .
Parents are required to present a written and notarized statement requesting that the travel document be
issued. The post-adoption birth certificate, final court decree, and 4 passport-size photos of the child
have to be submitted along with the statement.
The new name of the adopted child in the travel document is spelled in English transliterated from
Ukrainian, so it may look different from what appears on the parents' passport. There is no need for
concern as long as the child's name in Ukrainian on the travel document is the same as in the court
decree. However, parents can request that the correct English spelling be noted on the blank page in the
passport.
At the time the passport is issued, a special, mandatory stamp is put in it showing that the child is
departing Ukraine for permanent residence abroad. It is called a "PMP-stamp" in Ukrainian. Although
under Ukrainian law immigration authorities have up to 10 working days to issue passports or travel
documents for adopted children, they are often issued before then, especially if the child requires
medical care.
Consular Registration of Adopted Ukrainian children
Dear Adoptive Parent(s)!
In accordance with Ukrainian Law, the Embassy should include your child (children) adopted in Ukraine,
into the list of Ukrainian citizens residing in Singapore.
In order to process appropriate paperwork you should present to the Embassy following documents:
* Completed registration form;
* Your child(ren)'s original passport(s) (Travel document of a child);
* A copy of the Ukrainian Court's Decree on adoption (in Ukrainian).
In case you change your place of residence, you are also required to inform the Embassy.
Please be advised that you should submit your application to the Ukrainian Embassy that has jurisdiction
over the region of your residence.
IMPORTANT: The Consular District (the area assigned to a Consular Post for the exercise of consular
functions - Article 1 of the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations and Optional Protocols, 04/24/1963)
of the Consulate General of Ukraine in Chicago
Dear Adoptive Parent(s)!
Please be informed that to apply for a new Ukrainian passport for your child(ren) you must submit to the
Embassy of Ukraine the following documents:
* Child's original passport (Travel Passport of a Child);
* Completed application form;
* 2 color passport-size pictures;
* Photocopy of the child's birth certificate;
* Photocopy of the child's Social Security card and Permanent Residence (if any) Card;
Annual Report on Adopted child from Ukraine
Dear Adoptive Parent(s)!
The Ukrainian legislation requires that adoptive parents provide the Ukrainian Embassy with annual
reports on adopted child (children).
Please be so kind as to send annual reports to the Ukrainian Embassy once a year for the first three
years after adoption, and then once every three years until the child reaches the age of 18.
The Embassy of Ukraine will be grateful for your detailed reports about adopted child's (children's) living
conditions and development and pictures of your family.
The form of annual report on adopted child from Ukraine.
Please fill it out and submit it to the Ukrainian Embassy that has jurisdiction over the district of your
residence.
Thank you for your time and cooperation.
Processing times, requirements and fees are subject to change without notice.
The information on this web-site is provided as a public service, but we cannot guarantee that the
information is current or accurate. Readers should verify the information before acting on it.
Last modified on August 5, 2004
Embassy of Ukraine in the Republic of Singapore
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International Adoption in Ukraine