New Acceptance form for SN Families
I’m getting some information that families adopting a SN child will now need to sign an acceptance form, apparently something similar to what NSN families sign to accept their referral.
I’m told a few families received a SN TA on Monday, but I’m also being told that agencies are telling their families that SN TA’s are now going to be held up until these forms are signed.
It sounds like agencies were told about this new form yesterday. Hopefully they got some clarification last night and we’ll know more today.
UPDATE: I’m getting a little more clarification coming in. It is possible that the agencies who do everything via the internet now are going to have to have their clients fill out this form because the CCAA needs an actual signature. Those agencies who send a paper form of the LOI with the parents’ signature may not be doing this extra form.
January 10th, 2007 at 8:10 am
That makes me very interested. I had something like that in my sn-adoption in 2005, but I guess this is something else?
Talking about sn-adoption rumors, and I hope it’s OK to write this here, I got confirmed from my agency today that there will continue to be separate lists for every agency, though handled through the internet. No “big list”. Any conflicting info anyone?
January 10th, 2007 at 8:19 am
Long time reader. First time poster.
There is a new form. My agency sent it to me a few weeks ago to sign so it could go back to China. At that time they were saying that it would not delay my TA but I am only on day 50 something and everything since my switch from NSN to SN has been done on-line (my LOI, etc). It was an “acceptance” form.
Hope that helps.
January 10th, 2007 at 8:56 am
We sent in our paperwork for our first wc adoption on Dec 15th. This included a personal letter of acceptance (just like we had sent with our 2 nsn adoptions), a parent information sheet (like a chart) that we had filled out and signed, and then we typed up our LOI on a pre-made form. On the original LOI form, we wrote “See attached”, attached the typed form, and signed them both. I’m thinking that the legal-size original form might be what you’re talking about? Since this is our first wc adoption, I really have no idea if that is a new form. I’d really like to know if we need to do something differently.
For anyone that has seen the new form, what do you think?
Thank you.
January 10th, 2007 at 9:08 am
I don’t know if this is the referred-to form or not, but after bringing home our SN daughter in September (yes, AFTER), the CCAA mailed an acceptance form that we had to complete and send back. I am pretty sure it was very similar, if not exactly the same, as the NSN referral acceptance form. It basically said that we accept this referral and all we had to do was sign and date it.
January 10th, 2007 at 9:09 am
I am not the person to be asking specifics – those questions should go to your agency.
January 10th, 2007 at 9:21 am
Our LOI was sent to China on Dec. 12 together with Rehabilitation and Nurture Plan for the Child. These were the only two forms we had to fill out. There are four families with our agency waitin for SN TA´s and two couples have already been told that theirs are on their way (LOI sent 12.5). So for us no extra forms. We are with a small European agency.
January 10th, 2007 at 9:33 am
I posted an update to the original post:
I’m getting a little more clarification coming in. It is possible that the agencies who do everything via the internet now are going to have to have their clients fill out this form because the CCAA needs an actual signature. Those agencies who send a paper form of the LOI with the parents’ signature may not be doing this extra form.
January 10th, 2007 at 9:36 am
Thanks RQ That makes sense.
January 10th, 2007 at 9:38 am
Well, I think it’s about 2 different things.
1: all people have to fill in an oficial LOI, with the name, sex and SN of the child. Most people have already done that.
But I’ve heard the next info too:
2: The CCAA is now requiring agencies to submit additional documentation
for WC families IF their original petition letter does not include the
sex, age range and openness to special needs AND their home study does
not approve the family for the sex, age range and special needs of the
waiting child that they hope to adopt. If a WC family does, the CCAA is
requiring a new petition letter and home study addendum that are
notarized, state certified and authenticated. This may affect those WC
families who had a log in date (LID) prior to selecting a waiting
child.
This would mean that is has to be in your paperwork that you are willing to adopt a SN child.
January 10th, 2007 at 11:45 am
Can anyone give me an indication of time frames for SN approval and TA?
January 10th, 2007 at 11:57 am
That would seem to fall somewhere between 30 and 140 or so days.
January 10th, 2007 at 5:07 pm
We got an e-mail from our agency today. The new form is indeed for agencies that file electronically and it is the same as the NSN “Letter Seeking Confirmation from Adopter”. She sent us a sample and it looks identical to the one we signed for our NSN adoption 2 years ago.
Our agency is FED Ex-ing the new letter to us asap and hopefully this will not hold us up much longer. I was really hoping to be out of the review room by now. But we are still there. Maybe this letter will push us into the “pending TA” pile.
Amy in Seoul
LID 8/8/06
LOI 11/9/06
January 10th, 2007 at 5:10 pm
Our agency e-mailed us today and indeed this is the same as the NSN “Letter Seeking Confirmation from Adopter”. It is for agencies that file electronically.
I’m waiting for the FED EX man and hoping this doesn’t hold us up much longer, I thought we’d be out of the review room by now!
Amy in Seoul
LID 8/8/06
LOI 11/9/06
January 10th, 2007 at 5:18 pm
Yes, this is the same as the NSN “Letter Seeking Confirmation from Adopter”, and is for agencies that file electronically. Ours was FED EX’d to us today. I hope this doesn’t hold things up too much, I was hoping to be out of the review room by now!
Amy in Seoul,
LID 8/8/06
LOI 11/9/06
January 10th, 2007 at 6:08 pm
Actually, our agency just sent out information about the new rule today and it is for everyone! It is the “Acceptance Form” that the families in the NSN program sign. Apparently this has to do with the Hague Convention. It is unclear how much this will slow everything down. Our agency says it could take the same as the regular referrals which is anywhere from 4-7 weeks from when the CCAA receives the acceptance letters to when they actually issue TAs. I really feel for the families that have already been waiting 100 days.
January 10th, 2007 at 7:08 pm
Oh my goodness, sorry about all those posts, they didn’t go through for the longest time!!
January 10th, 2007 at 7:10 pm
It all makes me cranky, I was really thinking we’d be in China early March, now I’m not so sure.
January 11th, 2007 at 12:54 pm
I have a question – do you know approximately how long it takes for a family file to get through the Review Room once it enters the Room?