Adoption Status Update

This past month (October) the China Center of Adoption Affairs (CCAA) matched babies with families whose applications were received February 16 and February 17, 2006. A two day batch is quite painful to see. February 2006 was considered to be a relatively "small" month in terms of the estimated number of applications China received, and yet they are now starting their fourth month in matching those February applications with children.

There are no rumors of a speed-up in the China adoption referral process. At this rate, our referral would come mid to late 2010, and we would likely travel two months after receiving the referral.

Just to recap, two of the reasons for the slow down that have been officially stated by the Chinese government are 1) there are more domestic adoptions within China, thereby reducing the number of children available for international adoption, and 2) there are fewer children being abandoned in China.