The Australian government has notified their waiting families of a change in CCCWA’s “eligibility criteria”. Basically, it appears anyone with five or more traffic infringements (including speeding tickets) can no longer adopt from China. The Australian government says they will be notifying China of traffic violations and telling them the applicant remains approved under Australian [...]

My latest Projections post has the newest column at June 14, and the column I started last spring at June 16. Anything in that general time frame is kind of what we should probably be expecting. A U.S. agency who often gives an idea of where they think the matching process is has basically said [...]

From the CCAA: In order to improve on our online special needs program and focus on the placement of special needs children who have been on the “shared list” for over two months, CCAA decides to group some of the special needs children as “special focus children” (with a tag of “Special Focus” on their [...]

According to this news story, the CCAA is considering a different policy for home studies. The article states that the CCAA has not yet decided what the new policy will be, but they say they are going to be making changes. I’ve talked before about how the owner of our agency personally called us a [...]

Spain sent someone to talk to the CCAA about the slowdown in referrals. You can read the news story here, and the machine translation of the story here. They give some stats in the news article. In 2006 there were 2,493 applicants, in 2007 there were 1,859 applicants, and from January to August of 2008 [...]

As agencies are starting to ask questions of the CCAA about new applicants we are starting to get an idea of what the CCAA is going to approve and what they are not going to approve. It seems that they are going to be very strict. So far I’ve seen: A family with a minor [...]