China Program Update For
Waiting Families
June
2009
Currently, families who have their dossier logged in before March
8,
2006 have received their referrals. This means families are
currently experiencing 37
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 March 31, 2007.
We have access to the 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
- no more than two divorces
Children
- no more than 4 under the age of 18 at home
- can be more children if adopting special needs child
- 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
-
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
-
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
-
case by case
consideration when either parent has less than 5 traffic law
violations with no severe outcomes
