Did your expenses happen during the adoption period?

The adoption period:

• begins at the earlier of:
  • the time that the eligible child's adoption file is opened with a provincial or territorial ministry responsible for adoption (or with an adoption agency licensed by a provincial or territorial government); and
  • the time, if any, that an application related to the adoption is made to a Canadian court; and
• ends at the later of:
  • the time an adoption order is issued by, or recognized by, a government in Canada in respect of that child; and
  • the time that the child first begins to reside permanently with you.