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Newest Notice on Relevant Matters in respect of Root-seeking Visits to Child Welfare Institutions by Foreign Adoptive Families

To adopted children, foreign adoptive parents and root-seeking service providers:

As the children adopted by foreign adoptive families grow up, more and more families want to come to China for roots seeking and visit the child welfare institutions where their children used to live. According to the requirements of the Notice of the Ministry of Civil Affairs on Further Improving the Reception of Foreign Adoptive Families’ Root-seeking Visits to Child Welfare Institutions and in order to meet adoptive families’ desire, and further improve the root-seeking service,

we hereby notify as follows:

• Adopted children, foreign adoptive parents and root-seeking service providers should submit their root-seeking application to the relevant authority listed on the List of Civil Affairs Departments/Bureaus in charge of receiving root-seeking application

• When filing an application, applicants should submit the Welfare Institution Visit Application Form Adoption Registration Certificate copy and passport copies of the adoptive parents, adopted child and accompanying person.

• The civil affairs departments/bureaus, on receiving root-seeking applications, will review the submitted Welfare Institution Visit Application Form and the related files, and inform applicants of the verification results within 10 days of receiving the application.

• Applicants should arrange their root-seeking itinerary in accordance with the authority’s verification results. The person who visits the child welfare institution should be the same as the person stated on the application files.

List of Civil Affairs Departments/Bureaus in charge of receiving root-seeking application

Adoption family who want to visit Orphanage(welfare institution) in China now can contact the following departments/bureaus directly, or ask help from us.