Adopting from Russia - Contribute to the Website

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The information you provide will be incorporated into the site for the benefit of future adoptive parents. Thank you!!

Your identity and contact information is only needed in case we need to clarify something you have written or you are willing to be contacted by someone who hasn't adopted yet.

This web page is divided into these sections:

About you
Comments or suggestions about a particular part of the website.
Your adoption trip report. Nothing is required, but please give as much information as you can. You could, for example, skip around in the trip report section and only fill in selected parts. The trip report is divided into these parts:

About you

Your ...
Name(s):
City: State:
Phone:


Please provide your phone number so that if your email address stops working I can call you to find your new email. Your phone number doesn't have to be in the information sent to people asking for contacts.
Would you like your phone number included when your contact information is given out?
Yes   No
Email:

Is it OK to quote selections of your comments directly into the website? Yes  No

If you have adopted,

  would you be willing to talk to someone who hasn't adopted and wants information?
Yes   No
 

Any additional information like best time of day, when not to call, etc.:

How did you hear about AdoptingFromRussia.com?

You can fill in the comment section, trip report section, or both.

Comments or suggestions about the website:

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Topic not in list:

Questions, comments or suggestions:

Adoption Trip Report

If you want to tell us about more than one child, please fill out the form once per child. Thanks.

If you used Amrex, for now please fill out a second survey, indicating Amrex as the agency and filling in only the Agency and Facilitator satisfaction parts of the survey.

If you need to fill out the survey more than once, because you adopted more than one child, used Amrex or want to add something later, you only have to put your name in the 'About You' part of the form.

The trip report is divided into these parts:

About Your Trip, Child and Child's City

Trip, city | Moscow | What did you learn? | Agency

Travel Date:   Child's age at adoption:
Child's city:
 
If the city isn't in the list, what is it?
From Moscow,
How do you get there?
How long does it take?
How much does it cost?
Extra info
In this city, where did you stay? Home Stay   Hotel: #nights: cost/ night ($):
 
Hotel contact information or comments about the home stay, hotel or city:

Total number of days spent in Russia. If two trips, please give the total number of days for both trips:

Did you adopt under the old law or new law (passed in April 2000)?   Old    New

Did you make one trip or two? One    Two  Please don't count a trip if the 10 day wait wasn't waived and you returned home during that time.
If two trips,   When did you receive your referral?
Before the first trip or
from the Ministry of Education during the first trip.
Other. Please specify:
 
Made things difficult; very unhelpful Neutral Very helpful
| | |
How would you rate the   Helpfulness of the Ministry of Education?
 
Attitude of the judge toward international adoption?
1 2 3 4 5
Amount of medical information and time you had with the child?
| | |
Completely inadequate Just barely acceptable More than could be hoped for
 
After the adoption, was the 10 day waiting period waived? Yes    No

Additional comments:

 

About your stay in Moscow
 
In Moscow, where did you stay? Home Stay Hotel: #nights: cost/ night ($):
 
Hotel contact information or comments about the home stay, hotel or Moscow:
 

Trip, city | Moscow | What did you learn? | Agency

What did you learn?

What did you learn by experience that you wish someone had told you before you went to Russia?

What tips do you have for the next people who travel?

What information did you discover was wrong, out of date or irrelevant?


Trip, city | Moscow | What did you learn? | Agency

About your agency

This section works like Consumer Reports -- you say how satisfied you were with your agency and how much you spent and the results are available for the benefit of others.

The information you provide is only presented in aggregated form. Your identity is never revealed unless you agree to be a contact for people who haven't adopted yet. However, I need to be able to trace comments back to their originator. Therefore, please make sure you have supplied your email address:
Your agency feedback will not be included unless a valid email address is entered.

You can look at the Agency Info page to see how this information is presented.

What agency did you use?
 
If your agency isn't listed, you are the first to provide information about it. Please fill in the fields to the right. If your agency is listed, you can skip the fields to the right. Name:
Address:
Phone:
 
Facilitator in Russia:  
 
Please categorize your overall feeling about the agency's US operation and about the facilitator in Russia:   Agency:   What was the total amount of time from the beginning of the homestudy to adopting in Russia?
Facilitator:
1 2 3 4 5
| |  | 
Extremely dissatisfied Neutral Extremely
satisfied
 
Would you be willing to talk to people who want more information about your agency?   Yes
No
 
What was your total cost, excluding air travel and souvenirs? This includes homestudy, all agency fees, all cash paid in Russia to the facilitator, all the extras you had to pay for and hotel. If you adopted two at once, please try to guestimate how much it would have been for only one child.

Comments about the agency:

Trip, city | Moscow | What did you learn? | Agency

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