We are probably getting close to the release of the next waiting child list, as we are firmly in the window, with the most likely day being Monday.

We are about a week away from opening of the window for the next NSN referrals, but we are still two and a half weeks away from the most likely day of arrival. With that being said, I received one lone email yesterday telling me a large agency said the CCAA is through matching. However, when this particular agency posts something like that I usually get a dozen or more emails telling me about it, so I’m a bit hesitant to report it. If your agency has said this, please let me know. As of now I’m not giving that one an R rating at all, I need to hear it from more than one person before I can do that.

Now for the big question – where are we with the speed up rumors? No one has retracted their statements, everyone who was expecting a speed up, seems to still be expecting us to see more referrals per month than we’ve been seeing, and they seem to expect it to begin showing up somewhere between August and November. (By speed up, they don’t mean the wait will begin getting shorter, this rumor is that things are going to go a little faster than they’ve been going.)

Things seem to still be plugging along as far as travel and H1N1. I believe that the chances of being quarantined are a bit higher than some people are thinking, but still not terribly high. I’m aware of 7 people in the adoption community who have been quarantined in the past three weeks. I have no idea how many have traveled to China during those three weeks (that’s when they seem to catch most people, if someone on your flight in has it, you get quarantined). If we consider 4,000 adoptions in a year then that’s 230 people in three weeks, which would mean about three percent of travelers are being quarantined. I’m probably not aware of everyone, so we might want to think of it as five or six percent.

AFAIK, all provinces are setting appointments. I know of two agencies saying they can’t get appointments, but other agencies are getting appointments, so that doesn’t really add up to me. Some provinces are requiring you to be in the province for a week before you get your child, some provinces are requiring you that buy special face masks and wear them in the provincial affairs building, and some provinces aren’t doing anything different at all.

There are some threads in the forum discussing the immunization requirements (here is the most recent). If you are waiting and haven’t checked them out you really should (or if you’re home with your kiddos and just want to help, that would be great, too). You should also know there have been some issues of the child running a fever after those required immunizations and that causing problems during surprise fever inspections to make sure no one has N1N1. Unfortunately, common sense does not seem to be prevailing.

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