There is a rumor in a European forum that the cut off is March 2. I did some searching and a European agency is reporting that the CCAA “did two days of allocations”. This agency has been mostly correct in the past. I’ll have to give this one something between an R2 and an R3. [...]

I’m working on a few posts pointing to other writings on the ‘net, written by adult adoptees. In the meantime, I thought I should put some book recommendations out. Many of the books I’ve read by adult adoptees were borrowed from my social worker after a conversation we had at our one year follow up [...]

This post is a result of the responses from yesterday’s post. First I’ll handle the easy question, the first one. If you are a Hague family, when you get your referral then you have to go through the USCIS for another approval before you can send in your LOA to the CCAA. I’ve got reports [...]

Two questions have come up recently: Has anyone received a referral (recently) that fell under Hague? In other words, your original I-171H lapsed and you had go go through the Hague stuff to get USCIS approval, and you’ve received a referral? If so, did you have to jump through any extra hoops before returning your [...]

Even though our peanut butter crackers are not part of the recall, we’ve put them up until everyone figures out for sure what is and is not part of it. RK and I are in complete agreement on that one. But our jar of peanut butter has been much discussed between RK and I. We [...]

A few agencies have spoken out that they don’t see the CCAA getting all that far into March with this batch. I tend to agree, which is why I said that rumor would be less than an R1 if I had a category that was less than an R1. I stayed home with the girls [...]