We often hear reference to CCAA when researching adoptions through China. Who is CCAA?
The China Center of Adoption Affairs is a non-profit institution approved by the Chinese government and under the supervision of the Ministry of Civil Affairs, for the sole purpose of carrying out the work related to foreign adoption through 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 foreigner’s adoption applications, receiving certified documents of available orphans from provincial civil affairs persons and orphanage directors, matching orphans to approved adoptive families, issuing final permission to travel (the Notice of Coming to China) to adoptive families, overseeing the incoming post adoption supervision reports regarding the adjustment and upbringing of the adopted Chinese children abroad, and providing consulting services and liaison concerning foreign-related adoption as well as m
