What is my Dossier doing at the CCAA while I wait?
While it is not practical to ask the CCAA to notify an agency of where a certain dossier or set of dossiers is located in their process, the CHI Beijing office was able to provide me with the CURRENT schedule for your dossier at the CCAA.
1. CHI Beijing office takes your dossier to the CCAA.
2. Your dossier enters the CCAA administration office and can wait for 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 of Love 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 too can take from 3 to 4 months. Your dossier is matched several weeks before step #7.
7. Your referral is sent to the administrative office to be signed by 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 complete your 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 12 months as of 5/2006.

Here is one web site that shows a picture "tour" of the CCAA:
www.familyoffour.homestead.com/June05CCAA.html