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