1. Choose a Hague Accredited Agency. The agency you choose must be a hague accredited agency.
2. HS – Home Study – Which is an in-depth review of you, your family, your finances, and your home environment in order to determine your suitability to adopt. You must use a Hague Accredited agency to do the Home Study.
3. Dossier – A compilation of documents. In order to adopt a child from China, you will be required to collect a series of documents that tell the CCCWA about you, your family, your health, and your finances.
4. USCIS – United States Citizenship and Immigration Services . Responsible for new immigrants to the United States and will approve you to adopt from China.
5. LOI – Letter of Intent. Letter written by you to the CCCWA expressing your intent to adopt a particular child from China. Your Agency will provide an example letter to follow.
6. PA – Pre Approval. Pre Approval from China to adopt your specific child. It takes around 1-3 weeks to receive PA
7. LOA – Letter Of Acceptance. Official approval from the CCCWA to adopt your specific child. You must sign this letter in order to accept the referral. It takes anywhere from 2-4 months to receive LOA. This letter comes after your Dossier has been Logged in and accepted by CCCWA.
8. I-800A – Application for determination of suitability to adopt. Your application to USCIS to adopt a child from China.
9. I-800 – Petition to classify orphan as an immediate relative. Your application to adopt a specific child from China
10. NVC – National Visa Center. Forwards information about your child’s visa to the consulate in Guangzhou.
11. Article 5 – Approval for your child’s immigrant visa. Final approval from the United States for the adoption to take place.
12. TA: Travel Approval. Permission from the CCCWA to travel to China and complete the adoption of your child.
13. CA: Consulate Appointment. Your Agency will make all the official appointments on your behalf.
For an in depth look at the procedure copy this link into your browser>
www.china-adoption-online.com
My 11 year old daughter wants to adopt when she is an adult.
I wonder what God has planned for her.
Lynda
vancouver island, b.c. canada
Hi Jane, We live in SC. At the age of 39 we lost a baby after a trailer sway accident. Having a now 22 and 25 year old, you can probably guess that we were not planning on having anymore. God had a different plan. I was trying to work my way through the heartbreak and I wasn’t doing so well. Our church that we were attending at the time offered a way to adopt. After much prayer and finding out God was just waiting on us. We went for it. Told God whatever he wanted to give us was fine. It didn’t matter color, race or gender. And really for the first time totally letting him have it, Even though in our hearts he knew we wanted a boy after having two grown girls. Our adoption was going to be American one though. We had to send out portfolios of our family. The lady that was handling everything for us would not tell us very much. No locations or anything. She didn’t want to get our hopes up to be let down. Everyone kept saying “oh you will have your baby really soon, within a couple of months”. So we hurried to get everything ready. We did know that it would be a newborn. After 2 times of moms changing their minds and 6 months of waiting. Carrie called and said she wanted me to send a portfolio to Florida. On the way back from the post office, God told me this is it. Get your stuff ready and wash your clothes. I came home and told my husband what God had said. So I did what he said,getting thing washed and ready. Sure enough 2 days later we received the call that we had a son. The joy was as if I had given birth myself. The easy way. The mom had already given him up and he was with a cradlecare mom. She was a wonderful Christian women that prayed over him. We were able to just step right in. We spent 3 weeks in Florida because of paperwork. But, if you have to be stranded somewhere, what better place to be? Come to find out, the birth mom was 8 months pregnant and never knew it. When she found out she looked in the phone book to get an abortion. The number she called was a Christian adoption agency. They took her under their wing and and he was born healthy, smart and strong. With hardly any prenatal care. We were able to take him at 1 1/2 weeks old. He never cried and slept so much, I can see how she didn’t know she was pregnant. Come to find out there was another mom that had picked us, but she had a backup adoptive family. So both babies received families. His name is Nicholas. It means victorious. Middle name Shelby. Shelby broke the racial curses our family had in the past. That name came from my husbands grandfather who was in the KKK. And my dad had to adapt as well. Nicholas is now 7, God has had his hand on him the whole time. He wanted him here for a mighty reason. We are a rainbow family he is black and we are white. He is prefect and I can’t imagine life without him. Being older parents sometimes I think wow. But he keeps me young. My husband has been dealing with a severe back injury from that wreck and has gradually worsened over the years and needs surgery, which is coming soon. He helps where he can, but at times it’s hard. He always dreamed of having a little boy he could wrestle and playball with. Hopefully soon that can happen. God blessed us with a business out of our home so, that helps me a lot. I can still work and be at home as well. He received the gift of the Holy Spirit at age six last Christmas. What a great Christmas present huh? Can’t wait to see what God has in store. I pray blessings on your new adventure, that is for sure what it is. Having met his birth mom it wasn’t as easy as I thought it would be. My heart broke for her. I have tried to contact her and I guess she doesn’t want any. I just told him, it probably is just too hard on her. She really would have struggled caring for him. He was her 4th out of six. I haven’t told him some things yet. Don’t know why I shared this long note but, it felt good telling his story again. Nothing like sitting in the palm of the hand of God and just riding. That is how it all felt. Blessings on you and Kim. We are super blessed by your ministry and plan to sow more. I know it is good soil.
God Bless, Dawn
Hi Jane,
Our cousins Kim and Phillip just brought home their little girl. Isabelle. They are fostering her and possibly her brother in the near future. God willing. Adoption is still pending for them. I know that God is Good, and if its his will they will be united as a family.
May the Lord God bless you and Kim and all of your family!
In the name of Jesus,
Bunny
Hello Jane,
My name is Sonya Dickerson,and I am writing to ask if you would pray for my husband and I. We have been praying the will of God for a year now ever since we made the decision to try to have another baby. Our first born,was born with Down Syndrome,and she is now 17 yrs old.Her name is Alana,and she is very high functioning child,and we have never put any limits on what she could do,and we never will. When Alana was 3 yrs old,my husband and I wanted to have another child. I got pregnant,and 61/2 weeks later my body rejected the baby and I mis-carried. I saw my doctor,and he suggested for us to wait for 3 months and try again.That is exactly what we did. 3 months later I was pregnant again,and at 5 months pregnant we wanted toknow the sex of the child,so as I went for my ultrasound appointment,we were struck with startling news that our baby had no arms. The doctor wanted to refer me to a specialist,and so he did.We went in to see the specialist,and he confirmed to us that the baby was a girl,and that she actually had arms,but that she would probably need prosthetic’ s because she was missing the bone in both arms that went from your wrist to your elbow. They called her arms flappers. The specialist was also concerned for her heart, he could see 2 holes in her heart,and wanted my husband and I to go right away to a Heart Cardiologist. Upon our visit to the Heart specialist,he told us they would have to do open heart surgery when she was born and that the main valve to her heart was very small or either it was not there,because it did not develop. When we left his offfice I collapsed in the floor,crying and heartbroken because,all I wanted was just a healthy child. We decided to name her Miracle Faith,I was ridiculed of course by religious people,and told she would be made fun of because, she already had to go through life with fake arms. I ignored the ignorance and decided that was going to be her name. I carried her 361/2 weeks and gave birth to Miracle Faith on December 17,1997. She weighed 4lbs and 07 ounces. Miracle,was completley blue,and suffered many problems. The doctors and nurses,tried to recessitate her but they found out she had no nasal passages formed from the inside,this made it hard to run any tubes through her nose,because of no airways. Miracle,was dying and their was nothing no one could do. Babies are nose breathers,and because of the severity of her conditions,they could not do open heart surgery to try to save her heart either. I was able to see my daughter the next afternoon, and the doctor on call told me she was also blind in one eye.They called it coloboma. “A coloboma is caused when a baby’s eyes do not develop properly during pregnancy. The eyes develop between the fourth and anything up to the fifteenth week of pregnancy, though development is usually completed around eight weeks. This condition occurs in about 1 in 10,000 births..” The doctors could not get her to to open her eyes and respond to them while they were prodding,and sticking her with needles,and special mechanical devices,that monitored her vitals. She was only breathing 20% on her own the respirator did the rest at 80%.When I entered the room,I held her for the first time and her little eyes opened and she responded to me. I was proud,and yet scared for her at the same time. The doctors were anxious for us to make a decision on what to do for her life. They said their was no hope,for her to live because she just had so many physical problems,that they could not fix her. We we devastated,but I had peace the whole time. People all around me could not believe how calm,I was being. I knew,God was in control. This time in our life,we were not in a relationship with God, like we are today.I always had faith and I knew who Jesus was but I did not live my life as an example of Christ. The decision to let her go,to be with Jesus was hard,but I felt it was our only way to let her be whole. So on December 18th we told the doctor that we were letting go. The heart doctor came to me with tears in his eyes,and said. “Mrs Dickerson,it was a miracle,for MIRACLE to live in your WOMB,like she did because the branches that you and I have that supply blood and oxygen to us,she did not have those.He said ” She should have aborted herself when you were 5 months pregnant,but she did not, he said” she grew/developed her very own spider like veins that was keeping MIRACLE alive in your womb,pumping blood throughout her body that we have never seen before in our lives/or practices!!! I took a step back and looked at this doctor,this grown man who was crying over a MIRACLE,of God..WOW! The doctors told me they wanted to send her pictures to the UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK,so that the students their could study her,and try to get a diagnosis on her. We agreed to let them do an autopsy,on her,and so we signed what we needed to sign and away we went with making this hard choice of our baby. The last family member came to see her,and I was ready to give her to Jesus. They wrapped her as tight as they could in a blanket,and injected her IV with Morphine,so as not to let her feel any pain of the passing.They handed her to me,and I rocked her to sleep,to be with Jesus. I gazed upon her little face,and she began to lose color,as she was taking her last gasps of air,I screamed out as loud as I could,knowing this would be the release to God. Suddenly,I felt such a sweet presence there with me and my husband,I knew with that still small voice that spoke and said” It’s ok she’s with me”. I knew,she was with Jesus. She received a better Christmas gift than any of us,she got to sit on Daddy God’s Lap. Now 15 yrs later and my husband has wanted us to try again. We have tried and we have been believing the Perfect Will of the Father. I have since had dreams,of being pregnant,and giving birth to a male child. I know dreams can also be symbolism for spiritual pregnancy,but either way I am happy. My husband and I have ventured on the topic of adoption,but never so far as to really examine the ins and outs of adoption. Soooo, I told you my testimony,asking if you and Prophet Kim,would pray for us,on this journey of God’s Will. May you and your family be blessed. In his service your friend Sonya Dickerson