Tuesday, June 26, 2007

Review Room




We've made it through the Review Room!!! This is the last step of approval in the process to adopt from China - Here is a little more information on how the Review Room works:

Each agency has their own review person. They know how to put a dossier together based on how their review person wants to see it, and based on the things their review person will approve or deny.

Each review person has their own assigned agencies, or maybe their own assigned country.

Sometimes one review person has twice as many files to review as someone else does that month, but the next month they may have half as many.

This means that one reviewer could be several months ahead of another reviewer, and may stay that way until their agencies have a big month and they get slowed down again. It is normal for one reviewer to still be working on February while another reviewer has made it to April.

The review room notice on the CCAA site won’t show that a month is complete until all reviewers are through with that month.