Saturday, April 26, 2008

Review Room Finishes 2006!

Not sure if I've ever explained the process of being "reviewed". When you're LID, the CCAA basically acknowledges your dossier, recognizes that you are legitimately adopting, and places your file aside to be reviewed at a later date. Eventually, your case is reviewed by their review board, and when your LID is reached, you are "matched" with a child. For the last 3 months, the review process has been stuck at October 31st, 2006. We've become frustrated with the stagnancy of this date and... the waiting continues. We desperately want to be "through review" because it may open up some options for us in terms of waiting children. Well, the CCAA has finally updated their web portal to reflect that they are now officially through review up to December 31st, 2006. This is excellent news - they blasted through 2 months at once. With a September 2007 LID, we are still 9 months away from being reviewed, but it is at least one step closer. We anticipate that January through April 2007 will be long months for the board to get through review because of the rule changes that went into effect on May 1st, 2007 and the windfall of dossiers that were logged in prior to that date. But after that, with the amount of submitted dossiers drastically falling, we should sail quickly towards September.

Tuesday, April 8, 2008

CCAA Update 4-2008

The CCAA (China Center of Adoption Affairs) has updated their system with referrals through January 9th, 2006. That makes 5 days this month. And that's all I have to say about that...