As I mentioned in a previous post, I’m getting a good bit of information coming out of the JCICS meeting. However, I have to wonder if they were all at the same meeting. There are a few points they all agree on, but many points are being reported differently by almost every agency.
Many of them [...]

Several agencies seem to think the CCAA is going to try to send referrals before they leave for their May holiday.
I’ll give this one an R3, since we have a decent number of agencies who are saying something along these lines.
Sorry, no one is willing to guess about how far they are going to get, [...]

There has been a lot of questions lately about doing a concurrent adoption while waiting for your referral from China. Some agencies say it’s fine, others say you cannot. Some agencies are saying that it was agreed at the JCICS conference that it is not allowed, while other agencies did not walk away from the [...]

With every trip to China I must face things that I had taken for granted. Things I view as a necessity that are actually a luxury that many people just don’t have. The biggest of these is clean drinking water.
I told my DH on this most recent trip that if we ever win the lottery [...]

We occasionally see horror stories. People who go to China with a referral and three pictures who come home with empty arms and a broken heart.
It does not happen often. I’d say maybe 8 stories a year go public, which probably means there are less than 20 a year.
On one of the most [...]

A European agency is telling their people that the wait will get to 30 months. The CCAA has told them that more people were logged in during 2006 than during 2005 and that things will continue to slow down.
What do I think? I think we already knew that things would reach at least 30 months, [...]