Saturday, January 30th, 2010
Here’s how the Special Needs shared list should work, in theory:
An agency employee should have a list of families and the various special needs they feel comfortable with along with preferred age ranges, gender, etc. The agency rep should be able to look through the child’s medical information and decide if this is a fit, [...]
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Wednesday, September 10th, 2008
People seem to ask about the status of the review room every couple of days, and my answer is (unfortunately) the same now as it has been for the past six or seven weeks: Some agencies know that their February people are out of review, but as of now the CCAA has not moved all [...]
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Wednesday, April 25th, 2007
I think we have some more answers to when the adoption is final and what the implications of this are. From people’s experiences, it sounds like it is usually considered final by the orphanage director and by the Civil Affairs office if you’ve signed the paperwork, and not based on whether it has been registered [...]
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Thursday, December 7th, 2006
First, they review the baby dossiers and make sure there are no issues with them. We are told that they then count up all of the baby dossiers that are eligible for matching that month and then look to see how far this stack will go in the parent dossiers without sending out a partial [...]
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Wednesday, December 6th, 2006
Each agency has their own review person. They know how to put a dossier together based on how their review person wants to see it, and based on the things their review person will approve or deny.
Each review person has their own assigned agencies, or maybe their own assigned country.
Sometimes one review person has twice [...]
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Tuesday, July 25th, 2006
First, they review the baby dossiers and make sure there are no issues with them. Parent dossiers were reviewed months before, baby dossiers are reviewed when they arrive and then immediately matched.
So now they have a stack of baby dossiers. They look to see how far this stack will go in the month without sending [...]
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