Spain sent someone to talk to the CCAA about the slowdown in referrals.
You can read the news story here, and the machine translation of the story here.
They give some stats in the news article. In 2006 there were 2,493 applicants, in 2007 there were 1,859 applicants, and from January to August of 2008 there have [...]

As agencies are starting to ask questions of the CCAA about new applicants we are starting to get an idea of what the CCAA is going to approve and what they are not going to approve.
It seems that they are going to be very strict. So far I’ve seen:

A family with a minor run-in with [...]

The pendulum just keeps swinging on this one.
A country that deals directly with the CCAA instead of using agencies is reporting that dossiers must be received by the CCAA by May 1st, not logged in by May 1st.
Most of the big U.S. agencies are telling their clients that dossiers must by logged in by this [...]

I am told that the CCAA verified to another country, in writing, that the new rules will not be applicable to applications prior to May 1, 2007.
Most of the big agencies have been saying this pretty vocally, so this just verifies what we’ve already known, but it is still nice to hear it again.
Most of [...]

The number of divorces thing still seems to be up in the air. Some agencies are asking and getting clarification that it is two total divorces per couple, while other agencies are being told it is two divorces per person.
All agencies (that are speaking) seem to be in agreement that the May 1st date [...]

China Daily has a story about the new “criteria” for foreign adoptions.
Let’s remember that we heard a while back that the Ministry of Civil Affairs turned the CCAA down on the new rules/laws they wanted. It seems that the CCAA just called them preferences and put them through anyway.
It is interesting to me that the [...]