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 [...]

The Eastern U.S. time zone is now 13 hours behind China. This means that we can start watching the CCAA site at 7:00 this evening instead of 8:00. Assuming that they go to work at 8:00, which I’m not absolutely positive of. I’ve had a lot of people ask me what would constitute a speed [...]

The first rumor is coming from left field. This one says that the Ministry of Civil Affairs did in fact approve some of the new rules that the CCAA requested, but that the CCAA will be implementing them slowly. One agency is saying this while several agencies are saying the MoCA turned them down. I [...]

The following comes from three different countries and six different agencies. It’s in no particular order. Several agencies are now saying that there will be no new rules put into place. The CCAA wanted them and the Ministry of Civil Affairs appears to have said no. This means singles will presumably remain at 8% and [...]

Coming from multiple sources, it appears that referrals were mailed Friday. It’s not an r5, and it’s certainly not a fact… but I will give this one an r4.     And now for the scary news. The CCAA is still touring Europe. One of the countries they have visited has reported that the CCAA [...]

The CCAA is touring again and one of the countries they’ve visited has reported a few things they learned. I’m going from machine translations, but from what I can tell they are saying: The wait should stay in the 14 month range or maybe go just a little higher. Then they say this is not [...]