The State Department has published a pdf explaining how transition cases will be handled. You can download it here:
travel.state.gov/pdf/AdoptionFactSheet_TransitionCases4-09-2008.pdf
In a nutshell, if your I-600A was approved before April 1, 2008, and if you keep extending it without letting it expire, then your adoption will be handled as a non-Convention adoption.
They are clear that you must [...]

As you’ll remember from the When post, the soonest I would expect to see referrals this month is Wednesday, May 28 and the latest is Friday, June 6. The most likely arrival based on the average would be Monday, June 2.
If we are to see them June 2nd then I would expect to see the [...]

Because I’m a numbers geek, I wanted to know exactly how much it was costing me to drive a mile now and what it will cost as gas goes up and down. I figured it based on RK’s miles per gallon and then on my miles per gallon, but then I figured others might want [...]

Monday morning, May 19th: HTS reports that Mianyang has become a major refugee center. There are more than 20,000 refugees in the city’s stadium. They are told (but have not confirmed) that the entire center area of the stadium is reserved for toddlers and infants. HTS has someone headed there now so they should know [...]

First, I’ve again updated the list of orphanages in the earthquake zone.
Now, to talk about the Review room. If you haven’t read it already, you may want to read through the links in the Important Posts section to the right. But for our purposes right now the important link is the one called “How [...]

Some agencies are beginning to be told that their January people are out of review.
I have not heard that the box has changed, so I don’t believe that all of January is out of review.