When we started the adoption for Alison we were informed of fees that were required and mostly all these fees have been for our adoption agency and the U.S. Government, very minimal monies have been sent to China...this was an application fee.
Once we travel to meet Alison, when ever that may be, we will need to give a donation to the Social Welfare Institute (SWI) where Alison comes from, mind you, this donation is still MUCH less than we have paid to our agency and our government. This donation helps the orphanage do the things that they do, cloth, feed and care for the children.
There is a buzz going around that the donations may be going up, but again, it's a very minimal amount.
Some speculate that because the SWI donations have not increased for the past 15 years and have not met with any inflation, that it just cost too much to make the children that are available for international adoption paper ready. Some feel that if the donation fee increases, this may increase the number of children who will be made "paper ready" and could possibly increase the number of referrals and hopefully, speed up this long, long process.
Others speculate that because there are certain quotas set up as far as the number of children who are actually available for international adoption (and that quota number has gone down each year for the past couple of years) that the increase in fees is only being put into place to cover the loss of donations that the SWIs are no longer receiving because in the decline of adoptions processed.
Who knows which scenario is correct...we can just hope and pray for the best.
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