limitations on collecting the statistical information regarding this unrecorded waiting time. In late 2005, after reviewing process and eligibility requirements, we contacted the relevant WA Government department to register our interest to attend an introductory session, only to be informed …they ran once per year, that the March 2006 session was booked out and we would have to wait until March 2007…We attended the session before moving to Canberra…On … … arrival in Canberra…we were advised that although we had attended the information session in … Perth, we would have to attend another one relevant to Canberra…but before being able to ... register we had to demonstrate we were long term residents of the ACT by waiting six months…In that time we missed a session and had to wait until May 2008 to start in the ACT’s assessment process…” “…Over twelve months ago, I made an enquiry regarding intercountry adoption. FACS would not even accepts an expression of interest for 12 months…Finally 3 months ago, they accepted it and said that I would be eligible to adopt but that I would need to wait for a pre-adoption … … seminar to run before I could lodge a formal application …still no news. According to FACS … officers they haven’t had enough people interested in adoption to make it worthwhile running a ... seminar…In the meantime I have become ineligible for the Colombia program…and it is likely that we will time-out of eligibility for the India program…” Table 9: Median length of time (in months) for the intercountry adoptions process, by country of origin, for children placed in 2012-13(a) AUSTRALIA OVERSEAS TOTAL From when the From when applicant(s) became an approval From when the From when the official clients of the decision was file was sent child was department to when made to when overseas to allocated to Country an approval decision the file was when the child when the child Total length of origin was made sent overseas was allocated was placed of process(b) China 9 months 2 months 75 months 2 months 88 months Thailand 10 months 3 months 54 months 3 months 70 months Philippines 10 months 4 months 39 months 5 months 60 months South 9 months 7 months 6 months 15 months 37 months Korea
limitations on collecting the statistical information regarding this unrecorded waiting time. ... … … … In late 2005, after reviewing process and eligibility requirements, we contacted the relevant WA Government department to register our interest to attend an introductory session, only to be informed …they ran once per year, that the March 2006 session was booked out and we would have to wait until March 2007…We attended the session before moving to Canberra…On arrival in Canberra…we were advised that although we had attended the information session in Perth, we would have to attend another one relevant to Canberra…but before being able to register we had to demonstrate we were long term residents of the ACT by waiting six months…In that time we missed a session and had to wait until May 2008 to start in the ACT’s assessment process…” ... … … … “…Over twelve months ago, I made an enquiry regarding intercountry adoption. FACS would not even accepts an expression of interest for 12 months…Finally 3 months ago, they accepted it and said that I would be eligible to adopt but that I would need to wait for a pre-adoption seminar to run before I could lodge a formal application …still no news. According to FACS officers they haven’t had enough people interested in adoption to make it worthwhile running a seminar…In the meantime I have become ineligible for the Colombia program…and it is likely that we will time-out of eligibility for the India program…” Table 9: Median length of time (in months) for the intercountry adoptions process, by country of origin, for children placed in 2012-13(a) AUSTRALIA OVERSEAS TOTAL Country of origin From when the applicant(s) became official clients of the department to when an approval decision was made From when an approval decision was made to when the file was sent overseas From when the file was sent overseas to when the child was allocated From when the child was allocated to when the child was placed Total length of process(b) China 9 months 2 months 75 months 2 months 88 months Thailand 10 months 3 months 54 months 3 months 70 months Philippines 10 months 4 months 39 months 5 months 60 months South Korea 9 months 7 months 6 months 15 months 37 months
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