Inject required immunizations and Go toChina to Civil Affairs Bureau民政局 (CAB) have a notary interview get legal documents for your DD/DS.
After you accept a referral, the CCAA willsend you a sealed approval notice. With this in hand, you may travel to China to adoptyour child. You will typically need to be in China for 10 - 17 days to finalizethe adoption. Before you go, make sure you have the required immunizations.Your adoption agency will contact the U.S.consulate in Guangzhou, China to schedule an immigrationinterview. Do not make travel plans until you have a confirmed appointment withthe consulate. If you've chosen a good adoption agency, these things will betaken care of for you.
Unless you live very near a Chineseconsulate, you will need to send your passports and visa application withpayment to a courier, who’ll hand deliver your documents to the consulate andthen pick them up and return them to you.
On domestic China flights, you are allowed onecarry-on bag that weighs about 10 or 15 pounds. However, if the flight islightly loaded, they will allow you to carry-on two pieces of luggage.
Besides, there is no limit on the number ofchecked pieces only a limit on the weight. The weight limit is 44pounds. Also, for the international leg of the flights, (on Continental atleast), you can check 2 pieces per person for FREE.
Here is one great solution from an adoptionfamily: We took two checked bags, a rolling carryon for each of us and a backpack for each of us as our personal item. In our checked baggage we tookeverything and divided it equally among our bags, so each of us had clothing,OTC medications, gifts for officials, toys for DS, etc in each checked bag.
all necessary (non liquid) OTC meds in ourcarryon, all prescription medications, two outfits for each person (includingour son we were meeting in China),extra underwear, sleepwear, slippers, makeup/toothbrush, etc, in our carryons.
While in back packs, we put all the paperwork in one with a few snacks and allof our electronics, camera, computer, charging cords in the other. We figuredif all of the checked luggage was lost we would have enough things to rotateevery few days until our luggage was found or we attempted to go shopping.
Google is a very rough translation, which cannot tell what context youare saying things in at all. Besides, there is probably a lot that is getting “lostin translation”. It’s probably much better than nothing, but not ideal. Thebetter way is asking your friends who can translate English into Chinese for help.
The common ways to save money while in China.
1. Enjoy food at nice Chinese restaurant,the Chinese food is very inexpensive.
2. Buy water at a local store, supermarket such aswal-mart, one bottle water costs about CNY1.5 to CNY5
3. Do not use the mini bar & laundry services atyour hotel, some supermarkets or community do have laundry inside, and theprice is very cheap. 4. Do not buy souvenirs for anyone except ourselves andour child. Make it clear ahead of time that you are going to adopt your child,not a vacation.
