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2007 State Department NumbersWe’ve known the 2007 numbers for a few countries for a while, but now we can see what they are for the other countries as well. This comes from the State Department’s site, and to be honest I think the most use families can get out of this is as a research tool.
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April 24th, 2008 at 7:57 am
RQ, Is there an easy explanation of what IR3 and IR4 are? Thanks!
April 24th, 2008 at 8:18 am
Ir3 is when both parents travel to pick up their child. IR4 is when one parent travels.
April 24th, 2008 at 8:28 am
Rumor Queen….great…thanks for the numbers…..In our municipality ( city and county)…there were only 14 provincial adoptions for 2007…..Can you see why people resort to international adoption………..
April 24th, 2008 at 9:38 am
“Ir3 is when both parents travel to pick up their child. IR4 is when one parent travels.”
That is very strange then that in 90% of the cases for China both parents travel and 90% of the cases for Ethiopia only one parent travels. Why would that be?
April 24th, 2008 at 10:00 am
The reason for that, Windthrow, is that the child also comes in on an IR4 when the child is escorted (ie, no parent travels).
April 24th, 2008 at 10:03 am
Also, in certain countries, depending on the orphanage and how they do the paperwork, you end up with an Ir4 even if both parents travel. Taiwan is like this.
April 24th, 2008 at 10:08 am
down from 7,906 in 2005. that’s a drop of nearly 2,500 children a year coming into america.
April 24th, 2008 at 10:21 am
Actually, I believe that IR3 vs IR4 has more to do with whether both parents see the child before the adoption is finalized than whether one or both parents travel. It works out that way for China adoption since those are the only two options, but in other countries there are often other options.
With Ethiopia children are sometimes brought to the US by a third party, the parents never travel. Under those conditions I would imagine the child enters on an IR4.
April 24th, 2008 at 11:36 am
In Ethiopia most of the time the court date for the adoption is before the travel, so the parent don’t see the chil beforehand. I am surprised so much kids come from Ethiopia or Korea on a IR3 visa .
Al
April 24th, 2008 at 1:00 pm
FYI: the 2007 visa numbers (from China) were down 16% from 2007. They were down nearly 18% the year before that.
Here’s a fast breakdown using the same State Dept. stats for the past decade, showing the year, number of visas issued, and the percentage (negative or positive) relative to the year prior:
year 2007 = 5,453 visas = -16%
year 2006 = 6,493 visas = -17.9%
year 2005 = 7,906 visas = + 12.2
year 2004 = 7,044 visas = + 2.7%
year 2003 = 6,859 visas = + 12.1%
year 2002 = 6,119 visas = + 30.7%
year 2001 = 4,681 visas = -7.4%
year 2000 = 5,053 visas = +3.1%
year 1999 = 4,901 visas = +16.5%
year 1998 = 4,206 visas
Thus, many agencies had stellar years in 2002, 2003, and 2005, but certainly not during the past two years.
April 24th, 2008 at 1:11 pm
If you want more information about the last three years I went into a lot of detail in this post:
http://chinaadopttalk.com/2008/01/16/comparing-and-analyzing-numbers/
April 24th, 2008 at 1:29 pm
Thanks for that link, RQ!
After looking at it, I noticed the CCAA numbers and I’m wondering where those come from; are those numbers posted somewhere?
Also, from those same CCAA numbers, it looks like - per month - that SN placements have doubled from 2005 to 2007 while the same years/statistics for NSN have dropped at least 40%. Is that correct?