July: 16 days, 6/29/05 to 7/13/05
Referals have picked up again. They processed 16 days - through 7/13/05.
About the same or slightly faster than last month. We'll see where it goes. At this rate (16 days per month) it will be about 4 months to referral. If it speeds up any more it could be Christmas time!
7/13/05 to 9/15/05 = 64 days. 64 d / 16 d/mo = 4 months
4 months from Jul-06 =
end of Nov for referral, Jan 2007 travel to China
Latest from Xiaoqing
Dear families:
I was in China from July 25th to August 19th and just came back. As for the referral time frame, it is right now still about 12 months. As of end of July, families whose dossiers were logged in before July 13th of last year have got their referrals. Unfortunately, the referral time frame is not going to remain at 12 months but will increase. I visited CCAA end of July together with Andrea and Janet from BAAS and met with one of the directors. We were informed that there are much more applications from adoptive parents than the files of children ready to be matched each month. The imbalance of application and children's files has created a big back log and families will have to wait longer than a year in the future. No body knows how much longer because it all depends on how many children's files CCAA receives from orphanages each month.
The situation will be better only if there is an increase of children's files from orphanages each month. We were reassured by CCAA that the adoption from China will continue and families will get their children when their time is up.
CCAA will give out referral again by the end of August and my guess is that most of the July families will get their referrals if not all of them. At this rate, you probably will get your referrals at the end of November of this year.
Take care and talk to you soon.
Xiaoqing
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If we got a referral in late November, when do you think we would travel to China?
-Bob
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Dear Bob:
The travel time is 7 to 8 weeks after you receive your referral, so sometime in January.
Xiaoqing
posted by Bob Lane @ 2:05 PM
