Information on Adopting from China

Last revised: 6/13/98

• The Paper Chase: This is a good overview of the documents needed for a basic dossier and how they need to be processed. Please note that the information is posted by a specific adoption agency. Your adoption agency may require additional documents or require that they be processed slightly differently. Please check with your agency to see exactly what they need and how they need it.

• New instructions on how to subscribe to the A-Parents-China and/or Post-Adopt-China Email mailing lists.

• The excellent Adopting in China: General Information from Bob and Suzanne Moreland is now available. A big thanks to Jim Weaver, once again, for a splendid translation into HTML for the web site! This document was originally published as a guide to independent adoptions, which are now longer being processed. Bob and Suzanne have rewritten it as a guide to adopting from China that contains information that everyone needs. Highly recommended!

• Courtesy of Michael Zessner and FCC Toronto, we now have Overview of Adopting in China From A Canadian Perspective, an excellent starting point for any Canadians who are interested in adopting from China.

• Paper mail information sources on adopting from China are still available. We are gradually moving all this information onto the web site.

• Who can adopt Chinese children.

• Documents and paperwork.

• What it all costs.

• An online packing list and some more travel tips. Thanks to Kirby and Marie Bartlett-Sloan!

• Statistics on Chinese adoptions.

• Health and Medical Information

• List of corporate benefits to help you adopt. We list over 30 companies that pay substantial benefits to help with adoption. Please let us know if you have information that isn't on the list.

• U.S. Government Information Sources

• A list of resources, books, magazines, etc that are useful for adoptive families with Chinese children.

• FCC NY information packet is now available online! This is an overview of adopting from China. VERY useful.

• Our email referral list continues to grow. This is a list of families who can give recent information about about their experiences adopting from China. This is a great way for anyone to contribute to our information sharing about adopting from China.

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