Ah, yes. I remember when we were completing our first round of China adoption paperwork in early 2006 and how I shuddered when I heard our social worker say the wait from log in date to referral might go to 14 months. And now the wait is at 33 months and growing.
There's definitely fewer children being referred out of China, and the US Department of State's number of adoptions from China show that. In the government's fiscal year 2005, there were nearly 8,000 adoptions from China to the United States (the highest number on record). In fiscal year 2008, there were half as many adoptions as in 2005 - and that's not because there wasn't a pile of applications waiting (ours included)! Even from 2007 to 2008, the number of adoptions dropped by nearly 30% to 3,900.
Hopefully next week we'll hear rumors on how far the CCAA got with matching during the month of November. I am hoping they match through the end of February 2006!
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We actually brought Lorna home in April 2005, with a wait time of just a few months. And like you, we were told 12-14 months wait in 2006 when we submitted our second app, and yet here we are, now double that plus.
I'm with you, lets hope they can finish out February this time around.
Jolene
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