A couple of agencies are expecting the official statement about the new rules sometime next week. One agency released a statement this week that there has been no change in the percentage of dossiers for single parents that they are allowed to send. Along with this they talk about the change in age, switching them [...]

First, we have a very reliable European agency who is saying that the CCAA is almost done with this batch and that they are going to do all of September. It is unclear to me whether they mean all of that agency’s September people or all of September. And I’m not sure when this agency’s [...]

The same general guidelines from my original post seem to be sticking. As more agencies make their announcement we are seeing a variety of details emerge. I will stress again that I don’t think we should get too attached to any of the details coming out until we see the CCAA’s official announcement. I’m seeing [...]

Just for the record, two more agencies have chimed in with the same basic list with only minor differences. And two other agencies have notified their families that changes are coming but they do not list specifics.

The CCAA yearly meeting with all of the agencies happened last night (U.S. time). We have information out of the meeting from one agency, a reputable agency that is trustworthy. I will feel better when we have this coming from more than one agency, but I have no reason to doubt the information that this [...]

I long ago reached the point that I dread making these posts. This is an incredibly stressful subject and there is often the shoot the messenger mentality around it. I’m just putting together what is “out there” into one place and trying to make sense of it. I will say that the latest information seems [...]