0-5 Adoptive Placements:      $10,000

6-25 Adoptive Placements:    $15,000

26-75 Adoptive Placements:  $20,000

76+ Adoptive Placements:     $24,000

This non-refundable fee is for processing of, and completion of tasks related to an initial accreditation/approval or an accreditation/approval renewal of an agency or person. This Fee is in addition to the applicable Application Fee.

An Adoptive Placement is defined as a placement that occurred in which the agency or person acted as the primary provider, regardless of when the agency or person became the primary provider on the case.

For initial applicants, the Accreditation and Approval Fee is the 0-5 Adoptive Placements tier amount.

For agencies and persons who did not act as a primary provider during the 24 months preceding the date of submission of the Application Part A, the Accreditation and Approval Fee is the 0-5 Adoptive Placements tier amount.

For agencies and persons who acted as a primary provider during the 24 months preceding the date of submission of the Application Part A, the Accreditation and Approval Fee tier is determined by taking the total number of adoptive placements the agency or person had in the 24 months preceding the date of submission of the Application Part A and dividing by two.

Failure to pay may result in the cessation of the process until all outstanding fees have been paid.

$850 per client application

$850 per additional adoption (child)

A minimum fee of $2,550 will be assessed annually for all agencies and persons

These non-refundable fees are for IAAME’s monitoring and oversight of agencies and persons. The agency or person acting as the primary provider for the adoption is responsible for reporting client applications and additional adoptions in the Portal.

Each client application includes one adoption (child). If the prospective adoptive parent(s) accept or have accepted a referral of more than one child, the agency or person is to add the corresponding additional adoption(s) and fees will be assessed accordingly.

For agencies or persons who do not act as a primary provider the minimum fee is $2,550. 

For agencies or persons who act as a primary provider who report less than three (3) client applications and/or additional adoptions will be assessed the difference in order to reach the minimum fee of $2,550. 

• 0-3 client applications and/or additional adoptions = $2,550 minimum fee
• 4+ client applications and/or additional adoptions = $850 per instance

An agency’s or person’s failure to pay these fees may result in adverse action.

Travel Expenses: actual cost of, including but not limited to airfare, lodging*, parking, baggage check, rental vehicle, gas for rental vehicle, tolls, ground transportation, travel insurance.

Meals & Incidentals: Federal M&IE rate*

Mileage: Federal standard mileage rate** 

Expenses related to travel of IAAME for an on-site review. On-site reviews occur as part of the initial or renewal accreditation and approval process and may occur as part of monitoring and oversight.

*These rates are set by the U.S. General Services Administration, www.gsa.gov. IAAME will book lodging within the identified rate, whenever possible.

**This rate is set by the Internal Revenue Service, www.irs.gov.

Fee Category

Description and Conditions

Under Which Fees are Charged

• The Accreditation Fee is charged in advance and is non-refundable. 
• The Accreditation Fee is tiered and takes into account volume of intercountry adoption cases. 
• The Accreditation Fee for accredited agencies and approved persons is based on the average number of placements where the agency or person served as the primary provider in the last two years, which is calculated by taking the total number of adoptive placements the agency was the primary provider for in the 24-months preceding the date of submission of Application Part A and dividing by two. 
• The Accreditation Fee for Initial Applicants will be charged the Accreditation Fee for the 0-5 adoptions tier.

0-5 Adoptions = $9,600

6-25 Adoptions = $15,000

26-75 Adoptions = $20,000

76+ Adoptions = $25,000

Monthly Monitoring and Oversight Fee

(MMO Fees)

The MMO Fee is for monitoring and oversight and data collection and reporting services to be provided by CEAS each month. 

• MMO Fees are charged in advance and are non-refundable.
• The amount of the fee varies each month. CEAS calculates the MMO Fee based on the number of new cases in which the agency or person is the primary provider that were opened during the previous full month, including additional adoptions where the ASP serves as the Primary Provider.  The MMO Fee does not represent the cost of oversight for a particular case and is not a “per child” or “per family” fee. Rather, the number of cases opened in the previous month is indicative of the overall volume of an ASP’s intercountry adoption activities. In turn, this correlates to the overall volume of monitoring and oversight and data collection and reporting services to be provided by CEAS. 
• Accredited agencies and approved persons are required to report to CEAS the number of new cases and additional adoptions in a timely manner.

Annual Monitoring and Oversight Fee

(AMO Fee)

The Annual Monitoring and Oversight Fee is charged to each accredited agency and approved person for monitoring and oversight services including CEAS review of semi-annual and annual reports and annual data collection and reporting.

• The AMO Fee is charged in addition to any applicable MMO Fees. 

The AMO Fee is non-refundable. If an ASP’s accreditation is scheduled to expire during the year, and the ASP has notified CEAS that it will not renew, or the ASP has advised CEAS of its request to relinquish accreditation or approval the fee may be prorated taking into account the services that CEAS will provide.

Separate fees are charged based on actual costs incurred for the travel and maintenance of evaluators conducting site visits. 

This includes: the actual costs for each Evaluator for transportation, lodging, meals, and incidentals while traveling to and from the site visit and during the site visit.

CEAS will utilize current federal per diem rates to calculate a per diem expense for meals and incidentals for each Evaluator for each day of travel and the site visit.

Any expenses incurred due to the cancellation and/or rescheduling of a site visit will be charged to the ASP if a site visit is rescheduled based on an ASP’s request and/or due to the insufficiency of required documentation.

CEAS sends invoices for Site Visit Fees as soon as expenses are verified and within 45 days of the completion of a site visit, payment is due within 30 days.

CEAS sends invoices for Site Visit Rescheduling Expenses within 30 days of the cancellation / rescheduling, payment is due within 30 days.CEAS sends invoices for Site Visit Fees as soon as expenses are verified and within 45 days of the completion of a site visit, payment is due within 30 days.