Thursday, October 11, 2007

Update on the LOA, part 3

Due to super internet sleuthing (mainly that means I read way too many blogs, emails with complete strangers, and chatted in an online forum full of China adoptive parents), I found out that our situation is not without precedent.

Yes, that is right, this exact situation happened to another family with a different agency in September. Yes, last month. Their LID was August though, which was currently in review. Oh goody. What does this tell us?

Well, we will probably have to wait until the CCAA finishes reviewing all of September 2006 LID before we get our LOA. Yes, it bites.

When will that happen? We're not sure. However, it's good news in that we've not gotten questioned. It's happened in the recent past, and we have something to go on. Best guess is that September 2006 will be out of review by the end of October. Yeah. THAT long.

We, of course, have lots of hope that our agency can find out more information, information that is not "guesswork" and perhaps we will get that LOA before the end of October. Maybe.

Good news is that we SHOULD be able to travel to get Katie before Christmas. Whether that means we are home for Christmas or not is the question. I'm personally still holding out hope for November 15th as our travel date.

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