Referrals are arriving in the U.S. Congrats to those seeing their child’s face for the first time! If you are expecting a referral in this batch, or if you are in another program and would like to share your news, please list blog name and blog URL in the comments to this post. If your [...]

We have enough agencies confirming that I believe the 28th as cut off can now be considered an R5. My Projections post had the first two columns as July 27th and July 28th. We made it to the second column – very cool. We should remember that this two week jump is due in large [...]

An agency in Europe reports the cut off is July 28th. I’m giving this an R3 at the moment. I high R3, in fact — but for it to raise to an R4 or R5 I need confirmation from another agency.

All of the forums are complaining that there are no rumors. I see a whole lot of speculation that we should see referrals this week, but that’s about it. It also appears that the SN list released last night was much smaller than normal. I see one European forum speculating on the chance that the [...]

I was sure I’d check the various forums this morning and see some rumors, but I did not. There is someone with a LID of 7/22 who was asked a question, which could mean the CCCWA was looking at her file, but I’m afraid that’s the juiciest rumor I could find. The CCCWA’s last day [...]

An agency reports the CCAA is working on matches. I do not see anyone talking about a date as a rumor, only as speculation about whether they can actually get as far as has been projected. There is also a report that the next SN list will release on the 27th, which means in the [...]