New to the site, so forgive the question if it’s old news… But when the site says “Asterisks denote CNY dates” below the referral dates table, what does CNY mean?

Thanks!

Vietnam is for all paratical purposes closed for Americans – I cannot speak for other countries.

The CCAA don’t reply to this question?

Joanne, the wait time to referral keeps increasing b/c CCAA only sends out referrals once a month, and does not send out an entire month’s worth of LID’s each time. In fact, in recent months, they’ve sent out less than a week’s worth of LID’s per month. The only way the wait time can stay constant for all is if CCAA starts issuing referrals for an entire LID month each calendar month (i.e., all of January 2006 gets referred this month, all of Feb 2006 gets referred next month, etc.) The only way wait times can decrease is if CCAA sends out more than a month’s worth of LID’s per current calendar month (i.e. all of January 2006 and part of Feb 2006 get referred this month). Given CCAA’s track record the past couple of years, this is highly unlikely.

Let’s assume CCAA refers about a week’s worth of LID’s per current calendar month (which is actually slightly better than their progress the past few months). At that pace, it will take about 5 months to get through all of January 2006 LID’s. So, those LID at the beginning of January 2006 will receive their referrals 5 months sooner than those LID at the end of January 2006, even though their LID’s are only 4 or 5 weeks apart. The wait grows by a full month for each week into Jan 2006 someone is LID.

It has nothing to do with new adopters being LID on dates that have already been processed. It has everything to do with how few LID’s CCAA decides to issue referrals to each month.