I don’t see anything new this morning. No American agencies, to my knowledge, have verified the 17th to their families. I’m aware of three agencies (spanning two countries in Europe) saying the 17th, but no agency that I’m aware of is saying when they may arrive. From the most recent When post, we are in [...]

There is an agency in Europe that almost always gets it right. They are saying the cut off is the 17th. I am very tempted to jump straight to an R4, as I can only remember this agency being wrong a few times, and they’ve been right dozens of times. But, I’m going to stick [...]

I can get into the site with IE on my computer, my laptop, my netbook, RK’s laptop, GG’s computer, and TT’s computer. I’ll check it out at work tomorrow as well, but so far, every computer I’ve tried has been able to get on with IE. We don’t use IE, we all use Firefox, but [...]

I’d like to remind everyone again that I report when I see a rumor. If there are no rumors to report, then getting aggravated because I’m talking about something other than rumors isn’t productive to anyone. When there are rumors to report, I report them. When there are not, I try to find something else [...]

I recently received an email from someone with another one of those nightmare scenarios of getting to China and having a child placed into their arms who does not at all resemble the child described in the medical reports and other referral information. If this family had read through my “Important Posts” section before leaving, [...]

It appears that the tax credit has been extended for one more year (through the end of 2011), raised to $13,170, and made refundable. That last bit means people will no longer have to spread it across multiple years, they will be able to take it all at once, no matter what they’ve paid in. [...]