Comments on: How the Review Room works http://chinaadopttalk.com/2006/12/06/how-the-review-room-works/ Join the Rumor Queen as she looks for the latest rumors and then analyzes them, trying to figure out what the CCAA will do next. Tue, 06 Jan 2009 09:56:11 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.5 By: waiting4baby http://chinaadopttalk.com/2006/12/06/how-the-review-room-works/#comment-25468 waiting4baby Thu, 07 Dec 2006 20:41:25 +0000 http://chinaadopttalk.com/2006/12/06/how-the-review-room-works/#comment-25468 Thanks, that does make sense to me! Thanks, that does make sense to me!

]]> By: RumorQueen http://chinaadopttalk.com/2006/12/06/how-the-review-room-works/#comment-25430 RumorQueen Thu, 07 Dec 2006 15:54:13 +0000 http://chinaadopttalk.com/2006/12/06/how-the-review-room-works/#comment-25430 Many times an agency will tell a family they aren't sure if they will make it through review or not but they are willing to help them try. Most of the biggest agencies will tell you that they've never had anyone denied who didn't know up front that there was a chance they would be denied. Many times an agency will tell a family they aren’t sure if they will make it through review or not but they are willing to help them try.

Most of the biggest agencies will tell you that they’ve never had anyone denied who didn’t know up front that there was a chance they would be denied.

]]> By: waiting4baby http://chinaadopttalk.com/2006/12/06/how-the-review-room-works/#comment-25429 waiting4baby Thu, 07 Dec 2006 15:36:11 +0000 http://chinaadopttalk.com/2006/12/06/how-the-review-room-works/#comment-25429 I had a question about the review room, is there any kind of poll that shows how many people were asked questions in the review room that were denied to proceed with the adoption? I wonder if this is common or rather uncommon practice. I would think that your agency would know right from the beginning if you were going to make it through review or not, and if you had something that was questionable it would have been discussed with you right from the beginning. I can't imagine that an agency would complete a homestudy, send your dossier to China and have no idea that you weren't going to make it?? Does this make any sense??? Thanks! I had a question about the review room, is there any kind of poll that shows how many people were asked questions in the review room that were denied to proceed with the adoption? I wonder if this is common or rather uncommon practice. I would think that your agency would know right from the beginning if you were going to make it through review or not, and if you had something that was questionable it would have been discussed with you right from the beginning. I can’t imagine that an agency would complete a homestudy, send your dossier to China and have no idea that you weren’t going to make it?? Does this make any sense???

Thanks!

]]> By: wunone16 http://chinaadopttalk.com/2006/12/06/how-the-review-room-works/#comment-25428 wunone16 Thu, 07 Dec 2006 14:51:57 +0000 http://chinaadopttalk.com/2006/12/06/how-the-review-room-works/#comment-25428 GinaH, thanks for the understanding, I coach a high school girls basketball team here in NJ and we ran a stuffed bears for the holidays drive so that sick children in a hospital this month could all get some kind of stuffed animal to help brighten their holiday a bit. It is a cause like this and yours that reminds me although we are without a child there are always those around us who are more unfortunate. GinaH, thanks for the understanding, I coach a high school girls basketball team here in NJ and we ran a stuffed bears for the holidays drive so that sick children in a hospital this month could all get some kind of stuffed animal to help brighten their holiday a bit. It is a cause like this and yours that reminds me although we are without a child there are always those around us who are more unfortunate.

]]> By: GinaH http://chinaadopttalk.com/2006/12/06/how-the-review-room-works/#comment-25427 GinaH Thu, 07 Dec 2006 13:37:41 +0000 http://chinaadopttalk.com/2006/12/06/how-the-review-room-works/#comment-25427 wunone16, I know what you mean. Yester was at the mall and took an "Angel Tree" to buy gifts for, and recalled last year telling my husband, "Next year we will be buying toys for our own child." And here we are again. Not that I mind helping others, but I just assumed we'd have our baby home by now. There are no young children in our family anymore, and lots of elderly people, so Christmas for us has gotten pretty dry to say the least. Gina 9/12/05 wunone16,
I know what you mean. Yester was at the mall and took an “Angel Tree” to buy gifts for, and recalled last year telling my husband, “Next year we will be buying toys for our own child.” And here we are again. Not that I mind helping others, but I just assumed we’d have our baby home by now. There are no young children in our family anymore, and lots of elderly people, so Christmas for us has gotten pretty dry to say the least.
Gina
9/12/05

]]> By: GinaH http://chinaadopttalk.com/2006/12/06/how-the-review-room-works/#comment-25426 GinaH Thu, 07 Dec 2006 13:35:23 +0000 http://chinaadopttalk.com/2006/12/06/how-the-review-room-works/#comment-25426 testing. I thought I submitted a comment but it seems it didn't take. This is only a test. testing. I thought I submitted a comment but it seems it didn’t take. This is only a test.

]]> By: GinaH http://chinaadopttalk.com/2006/12/06/how-the-review-room-works/#comment-25425 GinaH Thu, 07 Dec 2006 13:32:00 +0000 http://chinaadopttalk.com/2006/12/06/how-the-review-room-works/#comment-25425 wunone, I know what you mean. Yesterday I went to the mall and took an "Angel Tree" child to buy gifts for. I recalled last year doing this and telling my husband, "next year we'll be buying gifts for our child," but here we are again. Not that I mind doing for another child, I just thought we'd have our own to buy gifts for at this point. There are no young children in our family anymore (and lots of elderly people) so Christmas has gotten rather dry to say the least. Gina LID 9/12/05 wunone,
I know what you mean. Yesterday I went to the mall and took an “Angel Tree” child to buy gifts for. I recalled last year doing this and telling my husband, “next year we’ll be buying gifts for our child,” but here we are again. Not that I mind doing for another child, I just thought we’d have our own to buy gifts for at this point. There are no young children in our family anymore (and lots of elderly people) so Christmas has gotten rather dry to say the least.
Gina
LID 9/12/05

]]> By: wunone16 http://chinaadopttalk.com/2006/12/06/how-the-review-room-works/#comment-25424 wunone16 Thu, 07 Dec 2006 12:22:15 +0000 http://chinaadopttalk.com/2006/12/06/how-the-review-room-works/#comment-25424 feeling a bit bummed today....we are one year from our LID 12/7/05 and remember last year at this time thinking with great anticipation about how this Christmas would be great with our new daughter...so much for that hope...well the streak continues, yet another holiday that we must present a brave and happy face to a holiday that just doesn't have the lustre it once had. feeling a bit bummed today….we are one year from our LID 12/7/05 and remember last year at this time thinking with great anticipation about how this Christmas would be great with our new daughter…so much for that hope…well the streak continues, yet another holiday that we must present a brave and happy face to a holiday that just doesn’t have the lustre it once had.

]]> By: Rogue71 http://chinaadopttalk.com/2006/12/06/how-the-review-room-works/#comment-25423 Rogue71 Thu, 07 Dec 2006 12:08:11 +0000 http://chinaadopttalk.com/2006/12/06/how-the-review-room-works/#comment-25423 Hi We are Sydney Australia and we have been fingerprinted twice! And we still don't have our Baby. The police told us that our fingerprints were loaded into the Interpol database and we were scanned for any 'worldwide'criminal activity. I knew it was a money making scheme on our Adoption Dept when we had to have it done again 6 months later. I asked the police and they said once is enough because once you are in the system that is it. But our dept ordered us to have it done again at a cost of $78 each!! Crazeee!! Rachel LID 26/10/06 Hi

We are Sydney Australia and we have been fingerprinted twice! And we still don’t have our Baby.
The police told us that our fingerprints were loaded into the Interpol database and we were scanned for any ‘worldwide’criminal activity.

I knew it was a money making scheme on our Adoption Dept when we had to have it done again 6 months later. I asked the police and they said once is enough because once you are in the system that is it.

But our dept ordered us to have it done again at a cost of $78 each!!

Crazeee!!

Rachel
LID 26/10/06

]]> By: Pam C http://chinaadopttalk.com/2006/12/06/how-the-review-room-works/#comment-25422 Pam C Thu, 07 Dec 2006 11:47:43 +0000 http://chinaadopttalk.com/2006/12/06/how-the-review-room-works/#comment-25422 waitingagain: The immigration folks (who give us permission to bring a "foreign" adopted orphan into the U.S.) take our fingerprints and run them through the FBI (sort of the federal police) to do a "background" check -- basically trying to make sure we don't have a criminal record. The "clearances" on those prints expires after 15 months, whereas the paper giving us permission to bring the child home (I-171H to most here in the U.S.) expires after 18 months. With referrals taking so long, one or both are expiring for pretty much every American parent adopting from China now. Pam C waitingagain:
The immigration folks (who give us permission to bring a “foreign” adopted orphan into the U.S.) take our fingerprints and run them through the FBI (sort of the federal police) to do a “background” check — basically trying to make sure we don’t have a criminal record.

The “clearances” on those prints expires after 15 months, whereas the paper giving us permission to bring the child home (I-171H to most here in the U.S.) expires after 18 months. With referrals taking so long, one or both are expiring for pretty much every American parent adopting from China now.

Pam C

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