Are your expenses eligible?

Eligible adoption expenses you can claim are:

• fees paid to an adoption agency licensed by a provincial or territorial government (an "adoption agency");
• court costs and legal and administrative expenses related to an adoption order in respect of the child;
• reasonable and necessary travel and living expenses of the child and the adoptive parents;
• document translation fees;
• mandatory fees paid to a foreign institution;
• mandatory expenses paid in respect of the immigration of that child; and
• any other reasonable expenses related to the adoption that are required by a provincial or territorial government or an adoption agency.

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