OUR
PROGRAMS:
NEW
HOPE works in 3 cities in Russia: St Petersburg,
Orenburg and Perm directly, and we have a cooperative
agreement with another accredited agency for
programs in Pskov, Smolensk and Stavropol.
Our main office in Russia is in St. Petersburg,
and our team in that city has been working with
us since the start in 1991. NHCS facilitators
in other cities work closely with our Head Representative
in St. Petersburg. 
THE
CHILDREN
We
place children ages 9 months and older; sibling
groups are
also available. Current waiting time varies
depending on the sex, age and medical issues
requested. (Waiting time for a young girl is
significantly longer than for toddlers and boys.)
We estimate that in most cases an adoption will
be completed
within one year (or less) of your completed
document dossier
being filed in Russia; many adoptions are completed
within 6
months.
Most parents want healthy children, and the
children referred
to our parents (unless a specific medical condition
is requested) have been in very good health,
but parents must remember that all children
in orphanages are considered at risk. Parents
should be ready for a child with developmental,
speech and other delays. Most of these are resolved
with time, love, nutrition, good medical care
and support services available in most communities.
We
can provide you with a list of parents who have
volunteered to be references for our adoption
program.
THE
COST
Although
adoption in Russia for Russian citizens is free,
there are costs involved in international adoption,
including, but not limited to, document preparation
and submission costs, mailing costs, translation,
notarization and legalization of all documents
in Russia, administrative costs, on-site translation
in Russia for adoption, driver and car in the
city of adoption, salaries of team members in
Russia, translation services, orphanage aid,
aid to needy families, filing fees, court fees,
legalization of child’s documents for
the U.S. Embassy, etc.
We
aim to keep the costs of the adoption process
as accessible to as many parents as possible.
Our fees (provided upon request) include all
costs; there are no “hidden costs”
along the way.
Parents
are responsible for their own document preparation
costs (copies, notaries, apostilles, and the
like in the U.S.), travel to Russia, travel to
Moscow to the U.S. Embassy to obtain a visa for
the child to enter the U.S., U.S. Embassy fees,
driver/car in Moscow only. Fees are reduced
for handicapped children, siblings and adoption
of more than one child at the same time.
