Snow Monkey and I “celebrated”–albeit in a weary and bitter sort of way–our 1-year LID anniversary last Wednesday on the 29th. That’s right. We have been waiting for a little over a year now for our referral. Only two more years to go.  

To give you a sense of how much things have slowed down on the China adoption front, the CCAA completed only four months of referrals in the past year.   Also, September’s referrals arrived today, and they covered  a measly four days worth of dossiers (November 22-25).   That means the folks who just received their referrals waited a little over 21 months.  There are a little over nine months of dossiers ahead of us.

 On the brighter side, August 2006 LIDS (which includes us) are currently being reviewed by the CCAA right now.  Finally! Hopefully, we’ll get past review in the next few weeks without needing to redo any paperwork . The danger is that depending on the nature of the paperwork, having to redo stuff could mean losing your place in line by a month or more. The one thing we’re a bit worried about is that the CCAA might want more medical documentation on Snowmonkey’s congenital heart valve problem.  In this case, no news is good news.

 That’s it for now.