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I don't think you can do an independent adoption from China. From what I understand, you have to go through an accredited agency, which CCAA (China Center for Adoption Affairs) approves. CCAA handles all international adoptions through China.
When we first decided to adopt from China, a close friend of the family had traveled to China, and she had gone to a doctor there. Originally, she said she was going to get the doctor's email address for us to hook up with him about adopting. We assumed with all the children there needing homes, it would be an option to not use an agency. We quickly found out that it is very organized and you cannot do it that way.
It is, however, very streamline. Recently, there's been talk about the time becomming longer after submitting all the paperwork, as it seems it will now possibly be taking 10-12 months as opposed to 6-7 months. Regardless, it's still a very streamline system when compaired to other international and domestic adoption predictability and procedures.
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Karen
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11/25/04 Decision to adopt our first daughter
03/14/05 LID for our first daughter
01/29/06 Referral for our first daughter
(total time from LID to referral-10.5 months)
03/20/06 Our first daughter in our arms
12/12/06 Decision to adopt again
04/14/07 LID for our second daughter
04/14/08 ONE year waiting
09/1/08 Re-submitted paperwork before it expired
04/14/09 TWO years waiting
04/27/09 Out of review room 
06/14/09 Fingerprinted again, before they expired
Still waiting...
How long is forever? -381 LIDs till our referral- That's how long forever is!
We've been waiting 31 months since our Log-In-Date with China
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