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Bay Area Adoption Services is privileged to be among the agencies recognized by the CCAA (China Center of Adoption Affairs) to do international adoptions from China. Since 1991, Bay Area Adoption Services has helped over 700 Chinese orphans find homes in the Bay Area. The following are some facts about the China adoption program: TYPES OF CHILDRENAlmost all of the children who are available for international adoption in China have been orphaned or abandoned and reside in the social welfare institutions. There will be little to no information regarding medical background or family history. The CCAA, located in Beijing, is the governmental agency that coordinates adoptions from China and this agency makes the referrals of all children who may be adopted by foreign families. Adoptive parents can make a request to the CCAA that the child they wish to adopt be of a certain age or from a certain province, or with no known special needs. They also may request to adopt a boy. However, the final decision rests with the CCAA who assigns all children to the adoptive parents. Infants over 8 months old are available. The China authorities will not "guarantee" that all requests will be honored. Bay Area Adoption Services is one of the agencies approved by the CCAA to seek adoptive families for children with special needs and older children over 6 years of age. For more information on this program, click here or contact our China program coordinator Xiaoqing Cai at xqcai@comcast.net. REQUIREMENTS
BAY AREA ADOPTION SERVICES(BAAS) will assist families in all the necessary steps for completing a China adoption. This includes: assisting with procedures, conducting the homestudy (which is mandatory both for CIS/USCIS and the Chinese government), putting you in contact with an experienced China program coordinator and with other adoptive families of Chinese children, and conducting post placement visits when you return home with your child. The BAAS China Program Coordinator will be your link to the CCAA which oversees all adoptions. The coordinator will translate your documents, forward your dossier to the CCAA in Beijing and monitor its progress. Once your dossier arrives at the CCAA, it will be reviewed, approved, and a child will be assigned to you. It currently takes about a month to get your dossier to China and 22-24 months to receive a referral. The program coordinator will then inform you as to when you will travel to China to complete your adoption. IN CHINAOnce you arrive in China, you will be met by a guide who will escort you through the adoption process. This person will remain with you until you are ready to leave China with your child. You will have two travel destinations in China:
TIME INVOLVEDAt present, the entire adoption process usually takes approximately 24-36 months. The first 6 months of the process involves completing the homestudy and receiving CIS clearance. Then the adoptive family must gather, legalize and translate documents required by the Chinese government. The referral time frame currently is about 22-24 months after families' dossiers are registered at CCAA. The referral time frame for the Chinese American families is about 12-14 months. Once a child has been assigned, the family is expected to travel to China approximately 8 weeks later. The stay in China is about two weeks. FEES INVOLVEDAll adoptions are finalized in China -- that means they are "adopt-abroad" adoptions. The following is a general estimate of the costs involved:
Internal China travel$900 - $1,200 (approximately,
per person for stay in China) Airfare to China: (varies)
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