[mdaisyq]

I noticed that you had put the wait times at 2.5 ++. The wait will probably be far, far longer if you are interested in applying for a NSN child even at the age range you are considering. It used to be that children 6 and older would be considered SN solely because of their age, but this may have changed.

Right now the wait time is almost 3 years and is expected to grow to 4-5 years for NSN.

If you are interested in adopting a SN child, then I would ask about this when you are doing an agency search. There is a "shared list" of waiting children which is not available to all agencies and then there are some agencies that also get a list that is just their own. Ask the adoption agency about their access to the shared list and how they handle parent matching. This is relatively new process and each agency seems to have their own rules for internal matching.

Also, as sak9645 mentioned, the China dossier is complex, but on the same par as a Russian dossier (we had a failed Russian adoption in 1995.) You might be thrilled to find that some agencies help with the authentication (similar to the apostilling.)