Babies post, Lid Poll, Adoption Tax Credit
The Babies!!! post is still being added to, if you haven’t checked it out since last week, you may want to check in again. Congrats to everyone receiving their referral.
The new LID Poll is up. If you are still waiting for your NSN referral, please click here to let us know when you were logged in. Someone asked how long it will run — LID polls always run from referral phone calls to referral phone calls.
I know I should have the projections post up today, but it’s going to be tomorrow. We’ve had a series of things happen over the past couple of days and I started it but haven’t finished it yet. Sorry. I should be able to finish it tonight and get it up tomorrow. I need to update the histories page, too.
Someone sent me this link to a petition to continue the adoption tax credit. I will remind you that signing these types of petitions is good, but writing letters to your representatives, and making phone calls to them, often gets their attention more. So while you’re signing the petition go here and here and contact your representatives, too. When you write them, be clear on what you are asking. Ask it at the beginning and end of your letter, with the personal stuff in the middle. Keep in mind that an office staff person will likely be reading it and either checking a column or making a note of five words or less to say what your letter said, and that’s likely all your congress person will see. Make it easy for the staffer to state your opinion – put it at the beginning and end, concise and easy for them to copy your words. On the other hand, sometimes (rarely, but sometimes) the really good letters get handed to the politician to read as a whole. So if that’s your aim, then make sure the middle part has something they could use in their arguments to other politicians, and to the general public. If that’s not your aim, then just write something short and to the point stating your wishes.
January 24th, 2012 at 12:23 pm
Hi there!
We are STILL waiting for our 2010 Tax credit! I know that several people are in the same boat. Any one out there have any tips for getting the show on the road?????? CRAZY!
Thanks,
Amy
DD Kai (Anhui 2005)
DS Bode (Sichuan 2010)
January 24th, 2012 at 1:16 pm
i posted our blog but it says error. is that something i need to fix or something you need to do. We are waiting for our travel approval. We are adopting a special needs girl so things happen almost in reverse order. not sure when we will get it.
January 24th, 2012 at 1:49 pm
ugajenni — Sorry about that – I fixed it. :)
Congrats!!!
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aeo335 – I thought everyone had finally received it. If there are still a lot of you waiting then you may want to contact one of your senators or representatives and see if they can help you. Pick the one you think is most likely to have the weight to be able to help, and to care enough to try, and contact that one, to start. If there are several of you in the same state then it would be better if you can all send to the same Senator at about the same time. Use the forum to find each other – make a post in the General Discussion room that says “Anyone else in ?? still waiting for last years tax refund?” (whatever your state is) and then work together from there.
January 24th, 2012 at 6:18 pm
Thanks for the info RQ!
It just takes a few minutes and you can cut and paste the same letter to all your Representatives and Senates to make it quicker. I sent notes to 3 individuals and it took me about 10 minutes.
Thanks again!
January 25th, 2012 at 2:49 pm
I sent letters to both Senators and my Congressman…Texas we have a Senator that adopted so she is for all things positive regarding adoptions.
January 25th, 2012 at 10:04 pm
We had to fight the IRS- they denied us at first. We had to submit cancelled checks and bank statements. We FINALLY received a letter stating that we will get the credit in about 8-12 weeks.
We also received a package today stating that our I800 was rejected. According to the letter it says our application was missing our names. Everything is filled out so now we need to find out what they are looking for. We received our referral the end of November- a healthy baby boy!