Going on Hold
In the past when someone went on hold they were usually matched within a month or two of going off hold.
I’m seeing reports that this is not happening anymore. One person has been told that when the next batch from their agency leaves the review room that they will be batched with that group. This means they could still be years away from a referral, even though by their LID they’d have already received a referral if they had not gone on hold.
Other people have just been told it could be five or six months.
Others haven’t been told anything and have thought they’d be in the next batch for several months now.
There is a lot of confusion around this right now.
June 23rd, 2007 at 11:08 am
There’s a lot of confusion going on period.
Wendy
LID 12/27
June 23rd, 2007 at 12:30 pm
hi i am a newbie - what are the circumstances for an ‘on hold’? how is that done? and then undone?
June 23rd, 2007 at 12:42 pm
I’m also a little confused. Do you mean a voluntary on hold? Or your dossier being pulled for new circumstances?
June 23rd, 2007 at 1:05 pm
ellabee and chikensoupforchina - my understanding is that a family may choose to put their dossier on hold if they wish to delay their referral - perhaps due to a new baby or a medical crisis in their family.
June 23rd, 2007 at 2:06 pm
Hi,
I think the situation to which RQ is referring is when the CCAA puts your dossier on hold because either they want some clarifying information about something (health situation etc) or some part of your dossier is incomplete. This — going on hold would not occur until your dossier is being reviewed which appears to be taking ~ 1 year to get to that point.
In the past when this has happened the dossier was usually put back in with it LID group or maybe the LID one month later. Now it sounds like some folks are being placed in whichever LID is current– i.e a year later.
Pretty scary!!!
Somebody correct me if I am wrong.
June 23rd, 2007 at 3:38 pm
Calamity4e, I think you are describing what is called “questioning in review”. “On hold” is what kmh said. It happens at time of referral. For example, if I were to become pregnant and give birth while waiting for a referral, CCAA would put us on hold until the newest child was one year old. Medical, family, travel or job reasons would be why a family and/or CCAA would do this.
June 23rd, 2007 at 3:41 pm
I’m not talking about questions in the review room. I’m talking about a family (or their agency) delaying their referral. Reasons for this include a new baby just before a family is due a referral, or a medical crisis where the family needs some time before referral.
In the past when a family went off hold they usually got a referral within a month or two. That appears to have changed.
June 23rd, 2007 at 4:16 pm
Everything seems to be “delayed” in the CCAA world. Nothing is coming early …. or even on-time anymore. Even SN TAs seem to be taking more time. At the beginning of 2006 they were running 50-75 days. Now the norm is 100-160. Although, I am sure with NSN referrals taking longer, more and more people are switvhing over to SN and this probably bogs down the program slightly. I just wish things could go in a more timely manner. But who doesn’t?
June 24th, 2007 at 1:18 pm
Ooops. Sorry for any confusion!!!