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The short answer is "no".

The China Center for Adoption Affairs (CCAA), which assigns all the children, will not log in a dossier until both spouses reach the age of 30.

If you prepare a dossier now, your documents -- for example, your homestudy, USCIS clearance, fingerprints, etc. -- will expire before you can submit them to the CCAA, and you will need to redo them.

Start working on your dossier a couple of months before you turn 30, so that everything can be submitted to China on your 30th birthday.

And please remember that things change in the world of adoption. Two years from now, China may have very different adoption rules and requirements. With the increase in adoption of healthy infants by Chinese citizens, and the purported decrease in abandonments, it may well be that the program becomes largely one that places older children and kids with special needs.

So keep following developments through sites like this one, and also research some other countries that might be potential alternatives.


Sharon