Adoption Status Update

The latest batch of referrals from the China Center of Adoption Affairs (CCAA) was for families whose applications were received April 1 through 3, 2006. That's a smaller than predicted batch. :(

Number of China Adoptions Continue to Decrease

According the US Department of State's newly released numbers on adoptions to the United States, the number of adoptions from China decreased from 3,911 in FY 2008 to 3,001 in FY 2009; that's a decrease of about 23%. There's been a 62% decrease in the number of adoptions from China to the United States since FY 2005. I posted about previous numbers in this post.

What the State Department's numbers don't show is that the number of "special needs" (SN) children being adopted has significantly increased. Many SN children have very correctable and minor needs that can easily be corrected or or have already been corrected through surgery or treatment like cleft lip and/or palate, heart defects, birthmarks, missing fingers or toes, limb differences, droopy eyelids, etc. There's a chance we may see how we fit into SN program in the new year... the wait is potentially shorter.

Still waiting on the next batch of referrals...hopefully some info surfaces during the first week of January.

Adoption Status Update

The latest batch of referrals from the China Center of Adoption Affairs (CCAA) appears to have matched babies with families whose applications were received March 29 through 31, 2006. It took 10 months to provide referrals for applications received in March of 2006. Now... onto April of 2006, which I hope will not take more than six months to get through.