The Wait

Here is a tidbit of info we got from our agency's newsletter today. I not too sure what I think. Last week we reached our 1 year log in date anniversary. The LID is the day the CCAA (Chinese Consulant) enters your dossier (tons of documents, legal, authenticated, and certified) into their system. It's when the waiting really starts. We never imagined we'd still be waiting. We were told last week we should prepare ourselves for a longer wait. Best case we'd get a referral (match) in December. According to this things may be speeding up or maybe that's just what we want to see.

We have been in the adoption process for our baby girl for 2 years since we were originally in the Korean program again. Up until now the wait has not been difficult but as time passes and babies all around us are being adopted and being born the wait gets harder and harder. We have a few things in the making to help the time to pass. More to come on this a little later. We'll need your help though.

Of course we are no strangers to waiting. We waited only 5 months to be matched with Lee and another 5 months before he traveled. I can promise that the wait was worth every second and every tear and I am sure this adoption will be no different.

If you made it this far with all of my belly aching thank for listening. I promise I will not always be this blah- just needed to get this off of my chest.

Amy

Child Match Department
Current Child Match Statistics
Log In Date (LID)
Oct. 14 – Oct 24, 2005
Match Date
3/5/2007
Children Matched
5
Age Range
7 – 12 months *
* Matched to families who requested and qualified for 0-12 months.


The current wait from the time a dossier is logged in at the CCAA (LID) until a match is received is approximately 17 -18 months for children with no known medical conditions. If your dossier was logged in at the CCAA in September, for example, count October as month one.

Of the matches that arrived on 2/2/07, we received expedited referrals for families of Chinese descent whose dossiers were logged in between March 15 – 31, 2006. There were 6 boys in this match group who were matched with families who requested “boy only” or “no preference.”

In the Waiting Child Program we have placed 35 children in 2007. The current wait for a Travel Notice for these families is 2-4 months from the time that both the dossier and family’s Letter of Intent are logged in at the CCAA.