July 30, 2013 - 6 months waiting since our LID (log in date in China)
- 14 months waiting since we began our adoption process
- 33 months (2 years, 9 months) since we began the process of adding
to our family
While we have not received any midnight phone calls for our referral for Emma, we have received good news from our agency in the last month. The CCCWA's computer system is working again after 9 weeks of no activity related to referrals being released.
On Monday, July 8, we were notified there would be shared referrals released that night. Since my birthday was Tuesday, July 9, I thought our agency had received the memo that a midnight phone call would be the PERFECT birthday gift! I'm sure the memo was not received as we didn't receive any calls that week. On Friday, July 26, we received an email from our agency about the agency specific referrals that had arrived that week and were matched with waiting families - 21 referrals with 17 children already matched. On Monday, August 5, there was another shared referral release. We know our agency is expecting another batch of agency specific referrals soon - hopefully, those referrals will arrive in August!
We were also notified this month that the China Center for Children’s Welfare and Adoption (CCCWA) has confirmed that they have completed the review of dossiers that were registered with their office through March 2013. This means that all families who were logged in at the CCCWA through March 2013 have had their dossier paperwork reviewed. We were logged in on January 30, 2013 - so our dossier has been translated and reviewed. We hope this completed review will shorten our wait time for one of the early approvals once we are matched to Emma.
From some email conversations I've shared with our family coordinator, our family is in the "top 20" families waiting for a referral. The "top 20" includes all families in the program asking for either gender, any age and any special need. So we feel that we could receive a call at any point in the next few months. The "matching" process is complicated and is dependent on the referrals our agency receives from China - there is never any way for our agency to know what ages, genders or needs they will see with each passing month. We are hopeful Emma's referral will arrive soon and a special phone call will be made to our family.
