Program Highlights
As a matter of disclosure, CCI partners with another agency to offer its Kazakhstan program. For more information, call CCI, 407-977-2810.
Married couples and single women may adopt. Married couples must be married at least one year. Single women age 25 and over can adopt. Neither parent may be over 50 years old. You may have other children in your home.
Normally, children available to be adopted are age 12 months and up. Occasionally, a child maybe a bit younger. Given Kazakhstan's geographical location, most children are of Asian heritage, but children may also be Caucasian or of mixed-heritage. Healthy and special needs children are both available. However, for 2008, dossiers are only being accepted for healthy children age 4 and up, as well as special needs children or sibling groups of any age. This moratorium on dossiers for infants and toddlers is expected to be only temporary.
Homes are especially needed for infant boys and older children of Asian descent.
To download a sample CCI Adoption Agreement, visit our Information and Disclosures Page under Sample Contract.
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Fees
Application: $250
Agency Fee: $5,000
Home Study Review: $100
Humanitarian Aid Fee: $500
Country Fee: $8,400-$13,875 (varies per region, and if healthy child, sibling set or special needs child)
Total paid to or through CCI: $14,250-19,725
Estimated total after extraneous expenses (travel, USCIS, home study, etc.):It is difficult to estimate the total after extraneous expenses due to travel options. Please contact tammy@celebratechildren.org for options and estimated expenses.
Click here to download a sample fee contract.
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Adoptive parents must understand that post-adoption reports are vital to the continuance of adoption. It is easy to think post-adoption reports are not important or are an intrusion of one’s privacy, but failure to complete required reports can have far-reaching consequences on future adoptions from the child’s country. Adopting a child is not a one-time event that concludes once a child is home. Please consider the following requirements when choosing the country you wish to adopt from:
Most post-adoption reports are completed by the agency who conducted the home study for the adoption. If the home study agency is not available to conduct the reports, another qualified agency may be used. The agency must complete three post-adoption reports at 6 months, 12 months and 24 months post-adoption. Two notarized copies of each report should be sent to CCI: one copy for Kazakhstan and one for CCI’s file. Recent photos are required with each report.
In addition to the reports prepared by an agency, parents must provide updates on the progress of their child. These parent-written updates are due once per year after the 24 month agency report until the child reaches age 18. Two notarized copies of each report should be sent to CCI: one copy for Kazakhstan and one for CCI’s file. Photos are due with each report.
In addition, if the client’s state of residence and/or home-study agency requires additional reports above and beyond Kazakhstan’s requirements, CCI would also need three copies of such reports. CCI retains the right to request additional post-adoption reports at any time.
It is the client’s responsibility to contact their home study provider (or other qualified agency) as soon as the child arrives home. This is of the utmost importance as some home study agencies have a short window of time during which they must conduct the first report visit(s).
Tammy is a 1994 graduate from Ohio University with a Bachelor's degree in Political Science and a Minor in Psychology.
She has worked as a Paralegal since 1996 and more recently has worked in the Publishing Field.
She is an active member of the Community of the Good Shepherd where she is a involved in several outreach ministries.
She is married to Tom and has a 2 biological children that are 11 and 8 and three adopted children from, both, China and Guatemala, ages 7, 6 and 2.
Shortly after the adoption of her son from Guatemala, through CCI, she began working with CCI as a Guatemala Case Manager. She currently is Celebrate Children's Guatemala Case Manager Supervisor and is now the director of the Kazakhstan Program
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