I reported on January 15th that the “the general atmosphere at CCAA is better than it has been in a long time, and that there is hope that things may not be so dismal in the near future”. I also reported this was coming from multiple places, and that while we’ve had these kinds of [...]

At least twice over the past couple of years we’ve seen rumors of “the CCAA going out to the orphanages”, with the intent of increasing paperwork that is coming in to them.
Once, we were told that the SWI Directors were cautious about sending paperwork in after the Hunan scandal, that the directors didn’t like the [...]

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 [...]

Lots of questions out there, and not a lot of answers.
One I can answer though, and that is the one about what happens if your agency goes out of business. When that happens the agency makes arrangements for another agency to pick up where they left off. Your original contract will still be (mostly) good [...]

A European agency is reporting that the CCAA feels the wait will reach 3 to 4 years, and will begin to come down once they begin referring the May 2007 families.
Nothing we haven’t already heard, but it’s out there so I’m reporting it.
Do I believe it? Good question. My math tells me the maximum wait [...]

Another agency has issued a letter to their clients that gives a good bit of information. This is another great, heartfelt, letter. Again, in bullet form, here is the informational part of the letter:

As of last month, the CCAA has approximately 30,000 dossiers waiting to be matched.
New dossiers coming in now are significantly less than [...]