Wahoo! six months under our belt...?? more to go!
Thursday, March 29, 2007
Friday, March 16, 2007
The Slow Boat to China...
After ready some lengthy information provided by my agency and what other news sites say about Chinese Adoptions, Kurt & I have come up with a summary of "factors" beyond our control on our wait for a referral.
This is what we came up with:
Factors For
CCAA is working to persuade local officials to work with them and developing a relationship with them. This is provided through funding, education and supplies.
CCAA moved to a new building with more space. They may hire more people.
There are stricter requirements for incoming dossiers, so there won’t be as much of a build up in the future. Doesn’t really help many of us with our Dossier already there.
Factors against
Dramatic increase in Dossiers (foreign paperwork) –This is because the health of the children, acceptance of Asian adoptions, successful program stability & reliability and manageable wait time. CCAA took more dossiers than their past yearly quota in 2005, then they received many more than they could manage. This is probably the biggest cause for the slow down.
Hunan trafficking incident- A baby was brought to an orphanage and money was asked for the child. The Chinese government made example of these people including the director of the orphanage, so directors may not participate in reporting the orphans to CCAA if there is any uncertainty and the hassle since it was voluntary to participate.
Lack of motivation among officials- international adoption adds too much extra work on an already heavy work load. This is probably the other greatest reason.
Orphanages buildings and symbols of power – Overly large newer facilities need to maintain a certain number of kids or they can lose their jobs. The government has put a lot of money into the orphanages to improve them.
Impact of Economic success – Improved economics has lead to more domestic adoptions and less abandonment.Less orphans is a good sign for China, but this is minimal since the most of the country sides are still dealing with low economic issues.
This is what we came up with:
Factors For
CCAA is working to persuade local officials to work with them and developing a relationship with them. This is provided through funding, education and supplies.
CCAA moved to a new building with more space. They may hire more people.
There are stricter requirements for incoming dossiers, so there won’t be as much of a build up in the future. Doesn’t really help many of us with our Dossier already there.
Factors against
Dramatic increase in Dossiers (foreign paperwork) –This is because the health of the children, acceptance of Asian adoptions, successful program stability & reliability and manageable wait time. CCAA took more dossiers than their past yearly quota in 2005, then they received many more than they could manage. This is probably the biggest cause for the slow down.
Hunan trafficking incident- A baby was brought to an orphanage and money was asked for the child. The Chinese government made example of these people including the director of the orphanage, so directors may not participate in reporting the orphans to CCAA if there is any uncertainty and the hassle since it was voluntary to participate.
Lack of motivation among officials- international adoption adds too much extra work on an already heavy work load. This is probably the other greatest reason.
Orphanages buildings and symbols of power – Overly large newer facilities need to maintain a certain number of kids or they can lose their jobs. The government has put a lot of money into the orphanages to improve them.
Impact of Economic success – Improved economics has lead to more domestic adoptions and less abandonment.Less orphans is a good sign for China, but this is minimal since the most of the country sides are still dealing with low economic issues.
Thursday, March 15, 2007
I read an article in TIME about how your brain can time travel. It was really interesting. I love writing which is new and leaves open possibilities. Anyhow, this article discussed how your brain is able to time travel. The brain is able to ignore our 3 dimensional space. This happens every time you relive or think about a memory. Your physical self/matter cannot leave this time space continuum but your brain does it frequently. You can go back in time to when you were small, or visit your favorite vacation spot, or speed ahead in time to the day we are finally off to China! It is such a neat concept. I will attest to lots of daydreaming errr I mean time traveling when spring comes!
Tuesday, March 6, 2007
So when do we travel?
I bet some of you are wondering when are we traveling to China to meet our daughter. Well, let me briefly explain the process where we are now. My information is what I have read & asked about.
We had all of our translated paperwork checked in with China on 9/29/06, this is our "Log in date" (LID). The current process is for the Chinese government (CCAA) to review our paperwork and match those qualified people with requests with the available orphan information sent to them by the orphanages. This process is the only way to adopt with China.
Most people, including us, have requested a healthy girl at 0-12 months of age. CCAA of China will choose the child for us. We will be given this referral and have to accept within 24 -48 hours. While other people have requested a waiting child. These children have some minor to major disabilities or may be older. Their wait may be a little shorter and the adoption agency has a list so you can actually “choose” your child.
OK so the big question is WHEN? As of this week, people with LID of 10/05 have just received a match. Then people travel in about 6 -8 weeks from this phone call.
Our projected timeline (which varies with different people’s math) to receive a match or our daughter's picture is about 18-20 months from our LID. So right now we would be traveling in late 2008.
Hope this helps. Right now we are in the very long wait phase. Why the long wait? That will be my next post.
We had all of our translated paperwork checked in with China on 9/29/06, this is our "Log in date" (LID). The current process is for the Chinese government (CCAA) to review our paperwork and match those qualified people with requests with the available orphan information sent to them by the orphanages. This process is the only way to adopt with China.
Most people, including us, have requested a healthy girl at 0-12 months of age. CCAA of China will choose the child for us. We will be given this referral and have to accept within 24 -48 hours. While other people have requested a waiting child. These children have some minor to major disabilities or may be older. Their wait may be a little shorter and the adoption agency has a list so you can actually “choose” your child.
OK so the big question is WHEN? As of this week, people with LID of 10/05 have just received a match. Then people travel in about 6 -8 weeks from this phone call.
Our projected timeline (which varies with different people’s math) to receive a match or our daughter's picture is about 18-20 months from our LID. So right now we would be traveling in late 2008.
Hope this helps. Right now we are in the very long wait phase. Why the long wait? That will be my next post.
Sunday, March 4, 2007
Can you find our File?
As many other adoption blogs are showing - this is one of the rooms where our dossier in China sits. A fellow adoption blogger stated it the best: "I think I see ours! It is the fourth row from the right, third shelf down, 12th dossier in the stack on the left. See it? Yeah, me neither. I really hope it's in that room. I hear they might be matching as we speak, come on...BIG BATCH, BIG BATCH!!!" thanks to Lisa M for some humor in this.
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