Once you arrive in China, you'll travel to the province where your child is located. Complete a Registration Application Letter of Foreigners Coming to China for Adoption. Submit it to the provincial department for civil affairs along with your original Notice of Traveling to China for Adoption, your signed adoption agreement, your passports, and additional passport-size photos. Provided your documents are in order, the provisional department of civil affairs will issue your Adoption Registration Certificate and Certificate of Conformity of Intercountry Adoption. Either during the registration process or shortly after, you'll be able to meet your child and spend some time with them. Depending on your child's circumstances, you may also take a tour of the orphanage where they lived prior to the adoption.  You'll typically have the opportunity to ask someone who was responsible for your child's care before the adoption any questions you may have. Typically, you would speak through an interpreter. This can be a good opportunity to understand more about your new child's needs. Once you meet your child, you're likely going to be ready to get back home and get started on the rest of your life. However, plan on being in China for at least another 6 to 10 days while you get the right travel documents in place for your new child. At this point, you'll likely travel to Guangzhou to complete the adoption process. Using your Adoption Registration Certificate, apply for a new birth certificate for your child and get them a Chinese passport. The new birth certificate will list you and your spouse as your child's parents. It may also provide the name you've chosen for your child if it differs from the name the child was given at birth. Once your child has a Chinese passport, you can go to the US Consulate in Guangzhou to complete the application for your child's immigrant visa. Your adoption agency may help you out with this. Before your child's immigrant visa will be approved, you must take them for a medical examination with an approved panel physician. The US State Department recommends that you use the Guangzhou Health and Quarantine Service, which is located close to the US Consulate's main office in Guangzhou. It may take anywhere from 4 to 6 business days for the consulate to process your child's visa application and issue their visa. When it's ready, a consular officer will contact you to come to pick it up. When you pick up your child's visa, you'll also be given a sealed packet of documents. Do not open this package. When you reach the port of entry in the US, you must give this package to a customs agent sealed and intact. When you travel back to the US, you'll have to take your new child through US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) at the port of entry. Provide the CBP officer with your child's Chinese passport, visa, and sealed Immigrant Data Summary package that was given to you with your child's visa. The CBP officer will keep the sealed package. Those documents will be forwarded to USCIS for inclusion in your child's official immigration record. Because Chinese adoptions are legally completed in China, your child is automatically a citizen of the US. Typically, a Certificate of Citizenship will be automatically mailed to you. However, you can order one if you think you're going to need it sooner. If you want to order a Certificate of Citizenship, fill out Form N600 and submit it to the USCIS at the address listed on the form. As of 2019, you must pay $1170 for any certificates you order. You can download the required form at https://www.uscis.gov/n-600. The CCWA requires adoptive parents to submit post-placement reports 6 months, 1 year, 2 years, 3 years, 4 years, and 5 years after the adoption registration. The first 3 reports must be completed by the caseworker who originally prepared your home study report. You can write the last 3 reports yourself. The post-adoption report is similar to a home study in many ways, but it isn't as in-depth or time-consuming. Your adoption agency will have additional information on the requirements for post-adoption reports.
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One-sentence summary -- Register your adoption in the province where your child lives. Meet your child for the first time. Get new Chinese travel documents for your child. Apply for an immigrant visa for your child. Pick up your child's immigrant visa. Return to the US with your child. Order a Certificate of Citizenship for your child. Complete and send post-adoption reports.


If you're using either the double overhand or palms down grip, your thumbs should be pushing into the nail or bar through the wrapping, while your index, middle, and ring fingers are wrapped tightly around the bar. If you're using the double underhand grip, your pinkies should grip the bar the tightest, while your index, middle, and ring fingers grip the bar slightly less tightly. Push your fulcrum fingers into the steel as you start bending the ends of the bar toward each other. Your wrists will channel the driving force from your arm muscles, concentrated in your index fingers with the double overhand or palms down grip, the index finger of your far hand with the reverse grip, or your upper palms with the double underhand grip. Your goal is to bend the bar to at least a 45-degree angle. Keep up the bending pressure from your fulcrum fingers and your driving muscles as you bend the steel further, until your fulcrum fingers start to touch.  If you're bending from the double overhand position, you can go from making the initial bend to continuing the bend in a single motion without changing your hand grip. If you're bending from the palms down or reverse position, you may have to change to the double overhand position to continue bending the steel. Ideally, you want to make this part of the bend in a single, smooth motion. If you're not strong enough to do that, you can make multiple attempts in rapid succession, using as much force as you can muster. Don't rest too long between attempts, or the steel will cool, making it harder to bend. Press the ends of the bar together until you can lace your fingers together; the ends should be about 2 inches (5 cm) apart. Then, use your clasped hands and upper arms like a nutcracker to finish bending the steel.  You may have to remove some of the wrapping around the steel if it gets in the way. You may also have to grasp the bent steel in one hand and clasp that hand with your other hand, squeezing both the steel and your hand. As with the sweep, crush the bar's ends together should follow quickly after making the 90-degree bend so that the steel doesn't have time to cool.
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Grasp the bar firmly. Apply force to the bar. Sweep the bar to a 90-degree bend. Crush the ends of the bar together.