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)