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The following is CCAA's October 12, 2001, statement to agencies regarding agency quotas (starting Dec. 1, 2001) for submitting dossiers, a quota for single-parent applications and points concerning dossier format and post-adoption reporting.
 

In order to protect the legitimate rights and interests of the persons involved in the adoption, the China Center of Adoption Affairs (CCAA) has formulated measures for receiving application documents for adoption submitted by the adoption organizations in the year 2002 (December 1, 2001 to November 30, 2002). Now we would like to inform you of the relevant items:

Explanation of the measures for receiving application documents for adoption submitted by adoption organizations in the year 2002:
At present, the number of foreign application documents for adoption has increased on a large scale, causing the CCAA's time frame for processing the application documents for adoption to become longer and longer, and as a result, the relevant documents for adoption by some foreign adoptive families have expired and ceased to be effective. For this, the adopters and the adoption organizations have urgently put forward the request to shorten the time for examining and approving the applications and reduce their waiting anxiety. In order to appropriately resolve the problem mentioned above, the CCAA has decided to accept the measures for checking and ratifying the quantity in receiving application documents for adoption, so as the ensure that the foreign-related adoption work can be developed healthily, orderly and steadily.

The measures for receiving the application documents for adoption in the year 2002
We will take the actual amount of adoptions by each adoption organization in the past three years-1998, 1999, and 2000-as the base to work out the annual average adoption amount, whereby we can check and ratify the number of application documents for adoptions each organization may submit in the year 2002. If the number of application documents for adoption submitted by the adoption organization exceeds our checked and ratified number, we will return the excessive documents.

 

Requirements

(1) To make investigation on the adoptive families in all seriousness and ensure the quality of the application documents for adoption:
The adoption organizations should carry out investigation on and run training courses for the adoptive families in all seriousness and take everything for the children to heart as the point of departure to select the families best suited to the growth of the Chinese children and protect the legitimate rights and interests of the Chinese adopted children. In the preparation of the application documents for adoption, the spirit of standardizing the application documents for adoption, as advocated by the CCAA, should continue to be carried through conscientiously so that the quality of the application documents for adoption can be ensured. Of the checked and ratified application documents for adoption, the number of single families should not exceed 5%.

(2) To carry out the work of post-placement reports conscientiously:
The carrying out of the work of post-placement reports constitutes one of the important yardsticks on our evaluation of the working capability and level on the part of the adoption organizations. You are kindly requested to check earnestly whether the post-placement reports on the children in 1999 and 2000 have all already been submitted to the CCAA, and submit the undelivered post-placement reports before March 21, 2002. The CCAA will suspend the reception of the application documents for adoption submitted by the adoption organizations which have not completed the work of post-placement reports after the deadline.

The China Center of Adoption Affairs, October 12, 2001



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