Under one of the following circumstances can foreign adoption applicants put forward their application to the CCAA for "expediting the process" of their adoption through their governments or adoption organizations authorized by their governments:

 

(1) Application for adopting sick and disabled children living in social welfare institution.

 

(2) Application for adopting normal children above 3 years old living in social welfare institution by foreign adoption applicants under 45 years old.

 

(3) Application for adopting normal children above 6 years old living in social welfare institution by foreign adoption applicants above 45 years old.

 

(4) Application for adopting "children of special needs" referred by the CCAA.

 

(5) One or both the foreign adoption applicants are Chinese of foreign nationality; or one of the couple is an overseas Chinese, the other, a foreigner.

 

(6) Foreign adoption applicants who have continuously lived in China for more than one year for work or study.

 

To apply for expediting the procedure of their adoption, foreign adoption applicants shall submit their written applications through their governments or the adoption organizations authorized by their governments, which forwarded their adoptive materials.

 

(China-ccaa.org October 16, 2006)