We often hear reference to CCAA when researching adoptions through China. What is CCAA?
The China Center of Adoption Affairs is a government organization within China, under the supervision of the Ministry of Civil Affairs, with the sole purpose of carrying out the work of adoption in China. The organization known as CCAA was approved December, 1995, and was prepared and set up by the Ministry of Civil Affairs in June, 1996. Authorized by the Chinese government, the CCAA is mainly responsible for receiving and examining adoption applications, receiving certified documents of available orphans from provincial civil affairs officials and orphanage directors, matching orphans to approved adoptive families, and issuing final permission to travel (the Notice of Coming to China) to adoptive families. The CCAA also oversees the incoming post adoption supervision reports regarding the adjustment and upbringing of adopted Chinese children.
