CHINA PROGRAM UPDATES
Children's Hope China team received
twelve referrals on the first of October for our 11/28/05
log-in-date families and our 8/8/06 and 8/29/06 Chinese
expedited families! The referrals are for twelve beautiful
little girls from the Chongqing, Jiangxi and Shanghai provinces.
These girls range in age from 6.5 to 9 months, and one
2.5-year-old. Our families waited 22 months from the completion
of their adoption paperwork to referral; the Chinese expedited
families, 14 months. We expect these families to travel in about
7 weeks to complete their China adoptions.
This group of referrals was given to
families whose paperwork was logged into the China Center of
Adoption Affairs November 26-30, 2005. The CCAA is FINALLY
finished with November 2005 dossiers and is ready to refer
children for December 2005 dossier families! Children?s Hope
next log-in-date for families is 12/5/05. Congratulations to
these families and all our China families who have moved up in
line!
On October 2, Children?s Hope also
received ten official referrals for families adopting waiting
children. The next group of thirty-five China waiting children,
those children who are older or have special medical needs, will
be posted on CHI Family Net for review Monday, October 15 at
10:00 a.m. CST. Application approved families and those that
have previously completed an adoption through Children?s Hope
may access CHI Family Net; please note, this site is not open to
the general public.
WAIT TIME FROM LID TO REFERRAL:
The current wait time from log-in-date until referral is 22
months. We fully expect the wait time from log-in-date to
referral to be at 24 months by the end of 2007 and grow in 2008,
but we do not know how long it will grow.
2007 COMPLETED CHINA ADOPTIONS:
194
CCAA NEWS:
http://www.china-ccaa.org/frames/index_unlogin_en.jsp
On October 7, ?Miss Annslee?
attended the Tennessee Titans big game. ?We had only been at the
KidsZone a minute when the cheerleaders came by. Annslee got a
poster and of course her picture made with one of the girls,?
says mother Laura Ware. Laura and her husband Mark adopted
Annslee from China in November 2005. Her apt face says it
all?this little 3-year-old girl is one big Titans fan.
See more
pictures from their day out on the Ware?s blog.
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