I’m getting all sorts of rumors about how things are going to work around the Olympics. Everything from “last referrals will be in March or April, then will stop until after the Olympics” to “TA’s won’t be given after May”, to “the only countries affected will be those with their exit procedures in Beijing or [...]

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Here’s how things are looking now:

There are still agencies telling their clients that the CCAA does not allow families to adopt while they are waiting for their referral from China, even though the CCAA put a notice out a while back that this is okay. Although it was in Chinese and there was not a translated version at the time, [...]

Referrals began arriving this month on December 5, though the brunt of them did not arrive until December 6. For consistency’s sake I’ve got the 5th noted on the historical spreadsheets, since I show the date of the first arrival on that day.
The last 12 referral batches have arrived 34, 29, 32, 32, 25, 35, [...]

For those who may be new, every month after referrals I make some projections of what the next cut off might be. This is done based on our poll numbers, not rumors.
First, let’s look at the size (in poll numbers) of the previous batches and this batch. Sadly, this was one of the smallest batches [...]

I’ve got a new poll up. This one runs from December 15, 2005 to February 12, 2006. That’s a LID that was two years ago (or almost two years ago), not one year ago. If your LID happened one year year ago do not vote in this poll.
This is a worldwide poll. It doesn’t matter [...]