Fees, Charges and Assessments

These fees are provided for by Article III Section 13 of the Inter-Country Adoption Act of 1995 (RA 8043) and Section  29 and 40 of the  Amended Implementing Rules and Regulations on Inter-Country Adoption. Effective February 2007, the ICAB fees which  applies  to all adoption categories (Regular or Non-Relative, Relative, Special Needs, Special Home Finding, Summer Program and Medical Missions) are as follows :

 

 

 FEES

 AMOUNT IN US DOLLARS

WHEN TO PAY

Application Fee

    200.00

Upon filing of the  adoption application

Processing Fee

       2,000.00 for single placement

      

       3,000.00 for sibling group of 2 or more
        (as of October 13, 2007)   


 

 

Upon acceptance of the matching proposal

Pre-adoptive placement  costs

The amount varies from one child to another depending on what part of the Philippines the child comes from and what country he/she is going to. Some Embassies of the Receiving Countries charge visa fees and require visa medical examinations while others do not. The total amount will be quoted by the ICAB in the placement proposal.

Upon acceptance of the matching proposal

 

  • The finalized Local Adoption cases requiring  ICAB's  ratification has its own  schedule of fees.

  • The ICAB also supports the request of the Association of the Child Caring Agencies of the Philippines (ACCAP) to increase its Child Care Support Fund (CCSF) from US$ 500.00 to US$ 1,000.00 per placement.

 

  • These new fees will not affect prospective adoptive parents whose adoption applications were received by the ICAB prior to February 2007 and are currently awaiting approvals and child proposals. This means that once these families receive a match, they will still pay the processing  fee of US$ 900.00.

 

  • All payments (except for the CCSF which shall be addressed to the child caring agency where the child came from) shall be in the form of a company check or international bank draft and shall be made payable to the Inter-country Adoption Board. Personal checks, travelers checks or cash WILL NOT be accepted. 

 

  • No adoption application will be processed and no Placement Authority will be issued unless the corresponding fees are received by the ICAB.