New CCAA Regs

Dear CCAI Families,

The China Center of Adoption Affairs held their 2006 Adoption Agency China Liaison Annual Information Meeting at its office yesterday. At the meeting the CCAA announced some upcoming adoption policy and practice changes. According to our Beijing staff who attended the training, these changes include the following:

Beginning Jan. 1, 2007, the CCAA will raise its service fee: $820 for a traditional program adoption (a $210 increase), and $590 for a Waiting Child Program adoption (a $170 increase).
No single dossiers will be accepted after May 1, 2007.
Applicants qualification changes (with little detail and no effective date provided):
weight restriction
minimum net worth requirement
substance abuse
health concerns
Waiting Child Program operation procedure changes.
The CCAA also predicted that the child match wait will not get shorter in the foreseeable future due to the influx of adoption dossiers. However, the CCAA did not say how long the wait will become.

No official written documents or announcements were distributed by the CCAA at the meeting. We hope such written documents will be made available soon by the CCAA. We believe that these qualification changes will have little or no impact on families whose dossiers have already been logged in at the CCAA. For families who are still in the dossier compilation process, we will contact every individual family should any verified changes affect your adoption.

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This was the statement my agency released today. My assumption is that the new regulations will not effect those of us that are already LID. We'll have to wait and see. I'll let you know. The RQ's information stated that there were half has many paper ready babies as there are waiting families. She also had some more detail on the new restrictions. The weight restriction is no person over a 40% BMI. Minimum net worth is $80,000.00. She also had no criminal record where there is no mention of that in this statement. RQ had also stated that the they would no longer allow anyone over the age of 50.