What's Our Dossier Doing While at CCAA?

1. CHI Beijing office takes your dossier to the CCAA.
2. Your dossier enters the CCAA administration office and can waitfor up to 1 month to be logged in. Once you have a log in date (LID)your official wait begins.
3. Your dossier waits to begin the process. This currently takes 3 to 4 months.
4. The CCAA administration office passes your dossiers to Bridge ofLove where they verify your dossier's translation. This processtakes from 2 to 3 months.
5. Your dossier is passed to Department I for review. This processtakes from 1 to 2 months.
6. Your dossier is passed to Department II for matching. This toocan take from 3 to 4 months. Your dossier is matched several weeksbefore step #7.
7. Your referral is sent to the administrative office to be signedby all the CCAA directors and mailed to CHI. This can take several weeks.
8. You receive your referral - a very happy day! You return your acceptance of referral letter to the CCAA.
9. The CCAA sends your travel approval to come to China to completeyour adoption. This process takes about 1 month.10. You travel to China to meet your child and complete the adoption.This is approximately 6-8 weeks after referral.

The current wait from LID to referral is 13 months as of 8/2006.