March: 5 days, 5/26 to 5/30...Still More Delay

Latest message from Xiaoqing:

Dear Families:
I have been checking with CCAA about the cut off date and finally got the confirmation that the cut off date of the referrals for this month is May 30th! It is really hard to believe that it took one month to just match five days of logged-in dossiers but unfortunately it is true. I don't really know what to say. My heart goes out to families like you who have been waiting patiently for so long. I wish I could do something to change the reality but there is nothing I can do. We can only hope that in the coming months there are more children's files ready to be matched. I will keep you posted.

Sincerely,
Xiaoqing

What this means is that dossiers with LID of May 30th just received their referrals in March, nearly 10 months later. Best case: for our LID of Sep 14 it means about mid-July 2006 we'd get a referral and travel in late Aug 2006.

Or, another, worse way to look at it:
5/30/05 to 9/15/05 = 107 days. 107 d / 5 d/mo = 21 months
21 months from Mar 2006 =
Dec 2007 for referral, Jan 2008 travel to China :-(

Feb: 13 days, 5/13 to 5/25...More Delay

I just got a call from Xiouqing, the China adoption coordinator at our agency. She tells me that the delay is getting longer. People with their paperwork logged in to China on May 13th, 2005 just got referrals at the beginning of February. And, LID date of May 25th just received referrals yesterday, Feb 28th, 2006. So, that makes it about 9 months from LID. Our LID is Sep 14, making our referral time around end of June; we'd be traveling around the end of July. Of course, the delay could also continue to grow.

Here is what Xiaoqing says...

Dear families:
I am very sorry to inform you that the referrals at the beginning of this month only went through dossiers registered in China between May 13th and May 25th. This is painfully slow. All we can do is waiting patiently and keep faith that things will work out for the best for all of you.

Xiaoqing

Meaning...
5/25/05 to 9/15/05 = 112 days. 112 d / 13 d/mo = 8.6 months
8.6 months from Feb 2006 =
Oct 2006 for referral, Nov 2006 travel to China