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June 2008
Currently, families who have their dossier logged in before January 12,
2006 have received their referrals. This means families are currently
experiencing 28 months wait from the time their dossier is logged in at
the CCAA until they receive their referral. Travel remains at 6-8 weeks
post referral.
China Center of Adoption Affairs finished the review of the dossiers for
families with log dates before December 31, 2006.
One
of our families successfully adopted their daughter and returned to the
US, and another one is now in China to complete the adoption.
We
have access to the “shared” list of special need children from China. If
you are interested in adopting a special need child, please contact us.
We
are permanently listing the known rules and restrictions for adopting
parents in China. If these do change, we will announce a change,
otherwise it will be a permanent fixture on this page. See below.
CHINA RULES AND
REGULATIONS FOR ADOPTING PARENTS
CHINA ELIGIBILITY
CRITERIA – May 2007
Age
(both parents, no exceptions!)
- 30
to 50 for “normal” healthy child
- 30
to 55 for special need child
Marriage
- 2
years if no divorces for either
- 5
years if any divorces
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no more than two divorces
Children
- no
more than 4 under the age of 18 at home
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can be more children if adopting special needs child
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the youngest at least 1 year old
Education
-
both parents at least high school graduates or vocational degree
equivalent
Salary
One
parent or another has a stable job and the family earns $10,000 per
family member including child to be adopted. Cannot include pensions,
public assistance, unemployment, and such.
Assets
Net
assets of at least $80,000
Health
Both the husband and wife are fully healthy physically and mentally,
and do not have the following conditions:
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AIDS
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mental handicap
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infectious disease within infective stage
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binocular blind or binocular parallax or monocular blind and with no
ocular prosthesis
binaural hearing loss or
language function loss; adoption of special needs children
who have identical
conditions will be exempt from this limitation
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non-function or dysfunction of limbs or trunk caused by impairment,
incompleteness, numbness or deformation; severe facial deformation
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severe diseases which requires long term treatment and which affect
life expectancy, like malignant tumor, lupus erythematosus,
nephrosis, epilepsy, etc.
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post-surgery of major organs transplantation, not yet 10 years
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schizophrenia
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medication within last two years or currently needed for severe
mental disorders, like depression, mania, or anxiety neurosis, etc
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BMI (BMI=weight (kg)/ height2 (m2) )> 40 (e.g., for a person 5’5”
tall [1.65 meters] and weighing 195 pounds [89 kilograms] such a
person’s BMI would be 89 divided by 2.72 (2.72 is the product of
1.65 squared or the product of 1.65 times 1.65 ) which means this
person’s BMI would be 32.7 – to exceed the allowable BMI for a
person who is 5’5” tall that person would have to weigh about 240
pounds
History of Criminal or Substance Abuse
Neither the husband nor wife may have
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a history of domestic violence, sex abuse, abandonment or abuse of
children (even if they are not consequently arrested or receive fine
or jail)
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have a history of taking narcotics like opium, morphine, marijuana,
cocaine, heroin, methamphetamine, and etc, and medication for mental
diseases, which are able to arouse addiction among human beings
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have a history of alcohol abuse except that exceptions may be made
if presently abstinent for no less than 10 years
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case by case consideration when either parent less than 3 criminal
incidents of slight severity with no severe outcomes, and there has
been a minimum of 10 years passage of time
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case by case consideration when either parent has less than 5
traffic law violations with no severe outcomes
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