Tired of the mumbo-jumbo I post about the "CCAA has finished the placement of children ..."? Want a straightforward estimate of when we'll be getting our referral (info on and pic of our baby)? OK, I'll try.
Our estimate of when we'll be getting our referral ranges from September 2008 (if the processing SUPER-speeds up) to February 2010 (if the wait continues to increase as it has). A middle-of-the-road estimate: March 2009. Then there's about a six week wait until we travel to get her.
Why such a range of estimates? Consider this:
1. The wait for referral has increased tremendously since when we first sent our dossier to China. At that time, the wait was about 13 months; now the wait is 21 months. This is because there are thousands of parents who applied to adopt from China and there are fewer children orphaned and more domestic adoptions occurring.
2. There is speculation that many families have withdrawn their application from China. This might speed up the wait.
Every month we get information that helps us hone in on the estimate of when we'll get our referral. Look for another update in about 2 weeks when the CCAA posts how far they got in placing children in September. We're hoping they get much farther this month than they have over the past 6 months!
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