This week we were couriered our final package containing our passports, Chinese visa and our plane tickets. Most importantly we received the Notice of Coming. It is It is an approval notice from the CCAA ("Notice of Coming to China for Adoption"). This document will bear the red-inked seals of the
CCAA (Chidren's Center for Adoption Affairs) With this sealed approval notice in hand, we may proceed directly to the city in China where the Civil Affairs Bureau with jurisdiction over the appropriate Children's Welfare Institute is located. The CCAA will have already forwarded a copy of the adoption approval notice to the locality where the child resides. Local Child Welfare Institutes, provincial Civil Affairs officials and Chinese notarial offices will not process adoptions unless they have seen this notice allowing the prospective adoptive parents take legal custody of the child. In China we will meet with a notary in the provincial capital for an informal interview before they notarize documents such as birth certificates or abandonment certificates. More on this process later as we actually go through it.
