We often hear reference to CCCWA or CCAA when researching adoptions through China. What is CCCWA?
The China Centre for Children’s Welfare and Adoption (CCCWA) 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. Originally known as the China Centre of Adoption Affairs (CCAA), the organization was approved December 1995, and was prepared and set up by the Ministry of Civil Affairs in June 1996. In March 2011, the name was changed to CCCWA. Authorized by the Chinese government, the CCCWA 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 CCCWA also oversees the incoming post adoption supervision reports regarding the adjustment and upbringing of adopted Chinese children.
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