CHINA PROGRAM UPDATES
Five Children?s Hope Families Receive the Gift of Referrals
On December 6, Children's Hope
received referrals for five happy families adopting from China.
Each family saw their first pictures and reviewed medical
information for a daughter. The girls range in age from 9-10
months, and are from the Jiangxi province.
These referral families all had
their adoption paperwork added to the CCAA's database on
December 13, 2005. After waiting 24 long months from log-in-date
to referral, we expect these families to travel in about 8
weeks. Congratulations! The CCAA?s next group of referrals will
begin with the December 15, 2005 log-in-date. The next
log-in-dates for Children?s Hope families are December 19 and
20. We fully expect the wait time from log-in-date to referral
to grow to over two years in 2008 and continue to climb to
possibly four years over time.
WAITING CHILDREN NEWS - We
have placed 27 waiting children and 2 waiting children files are
being reviewed. Seven additional waiting children are still
available. Congratulations to these families and their children!
CCAA ANNOUNCES FEE INCREASE ?
On November 23, the CCAA announced a fee increase of $40
effective immediately. The new CCAA fee is now $860 due at the
time you submit your dossier. The China information guides will
be updated with this information.
Travel: The November referral group
and the three waiting children families will travel to China to
finalize their adoptions in mid-December and will return
December 28 or 29. The October referral group and eight waiting
children families, currently in country, are set to return
December 13.
As 2007 draws to and end, we
anticipate completing 231 China adoptions this year. As of the
end of November, 199 China families have completed their
adoptions for 201 children. We celebrate each and every child
that found their forever family this year! We have also been
honored to continue walking the adoption journey with all our
China families still waiting for their child to be revealed to
them and come home.
CCAA NEWS:
http://www.china-ccaa.org/frames/index_unlogin_en.jsp
You?ve heard of twice as
nice. How about 2 times twice as nice! Christmas is more than
double the fun for Joyce and Pete Hewett when they bring the
whole family together?their biological twins and their twins
adopted from China, Grace and Halli, home in Texas since May
2006?for a family photo!
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