No News on LID Yet

The person who does the LIDs at the CCAA is on vacation. It is looking more like a September LID.

The following has taken place in the past week. Referrals were made to everyone with a LID from July 14th to July 22nd. It includes July 22nd. So you see we are basically at a 14 month wait now.

Also LIDS with a Nov 2005 date, their dossiers all have been reviewed by the CCAA. Basically dossiers get logged in (called a LID -- this is what we are waiting for now), then they get reviewed (they just reviewed Nov 2005), then they get referred.

There was an interesting post on yahoo today from Jane Liedtke. Jane runs an organization called OCDF ( Our Chinese Daughters Foundation) http://www.ocdf.org/. They provide heritage tours in China for adopted children. They also do provide facilitation in Chinese Adoption. She lives in China. Well anyways, there was a question to her about domestic adoption in China and if it was increasing -- one of the reasons behind the delay on international adoptions. Here is her response:

Domestic adoptions are encouraged through the new one-child policy that was instituted in Dec. 2004. However, the numbers (10,000 adoptions reported on the low end but they could be higher now) are not huge when compared to the population (1.26 billion persons) or compared to the number of births in China (1.7 million annually). CCAA is now responsible for all adoptions from the total of 1000 orphanages in China - both international and domestic (thus the slow-down - you have shifting offices, shifting employee roles, new employees, new procedures, getting a handle on domestic adoptions, promoting domestic adoptions, getting the 750 institutions that aren't international adoption-ready up to standards, etc etc etc). Add to all that the media focus on baby-trading in China and CCAA has it's hands full these days. It is highly responsible of CCAA to slow the process to be sure that they can get their staff up to speed and balance work loads, train new staff, and be ready for a larger volume of potential domestic adoptions. It doesn't mean they won't continue international adoptions, no way will they "shut down" that income stream. They are just adjusting their business for a larger scope and mission. We should all be thankful for their good work and increased attention to ALL the children who are institutionalized in China, not just those from 250 institutions allowed to adopt internationally.

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From what I inferred from her post, is ONE that China will not shut down their international adoption process (this was a rumor), and TWO perhaps more orphanages will brought on line to international adoption standards. Maybe, in time, our referral wait will decrease. The CCAA just moved to a larger building, added more staff. To me, that is all good signs.

Those Rumors
I asked our agency last week about the rumors, especially those concerning weight. They told me it is all speculation. They have asked CCAA about these rumors and nothing is confirmed. They also told me we would probably be grandfathered in so whatever new changes that do happen, won't affect us. I have complete confidence in CCAI (our agency). They have only had only two dossiers rejected in over 10000 placements. Those two dossiers had issues that weren't revealed to the CCAI from what I have been told. Even so, 2 out of 10000 isn't too shabby.

So when I hear about the rumors, I'm going to stick my fingers in my ears and scream "LA LA LA LA LA" and ignore them. hopefully.....

That's all for now. Have a great weekend.
Jen