Getting Started with Adoption

After receiving the Adoptive Parent Inquiry Packet, complete the Preliminary Inquiry (Domestic Adoptive Parents Screening) section of the form and return it to the adoption agency with a (non refundable) $25.00 inquiry fee. We use the Adoptive Parent Inquiry information as a screening tool to assess the potentiality for you to become adoptive parents. We will then send you the Adoptive Parent Application Packet. Enclose at least two recent photos of each adoptive applicants.

After receiving the Application Packet complete and return the application forms with a $350.00 (non-refundable) application fee and begin working on Eligibility Documents. We must have all required items before making a placement.

Upon approval of your application, you will receive a conditional acceptance. If you do not have a Home Study, this is the time to schedule a home study, with a licensed social worker or adoption agency in your area.

When your Home Study has been approved and the agency receives your Financial Agreement, you will receive a Full Agency Acceptance. One half of the Agency fee is also due at this time.

Our non-refundable agency fee of $20,000 includes the non-refundable legal fees of $3,000 and the following services:

Linking the birth parent with the adoptive family
Birth Mother and Adoptive Parent counseling
Developing, maintaining and reviewing adoption service plan
Preparing birth parent, child, adoptive family for adoption
Birth parent assistance with rent, utilities and food
Conducting pre-consummation activities
Providing post-adoption services
Staff resources, administrative overhead expenditures associated with rent, utilities, salaries, insurance, office supplies
Legal fees related to relinquishment and finalization.
Please make payments by cashier’s check or money order payable to Adoption Services Worldwide, Inc.