The wait ..... continues

Received our monthly newsletter from the adoption agency and here's what it had to say about the increasing wait!!

There have been a lot of internet rumors going around about increased waiting times and AT’s Group 25 is living proof that the wait for a referral has increased dramatically. Group 25 was originally expecting their referrals in September (with a 6 month wait), and they still haven’t come yet. This is so disheartening when you are sitting on the edge of your seat just waiting for the phone to ring. Group 25 has really hung in there, but we are still waiting to hear that their referrals are in the mail.
This past Friday, there was a meeting at CCAA for all China facilitators. The gist of what was said is that the number of dossiers being sent to China has been way up since last spring due to the shorter waiting period. In addition, more families inside China are adopting as incomes rise. CCAA has made a decision not to refer more than 1,500 children in any one month. As soon as they reach that number of dossiers/referrals, they stop for that month. Anymore dossiers logged in that month are automatically pushed back to the following month. CCAA is stating that they expect the wait to move between 9-12 months, depending on the number of dossiers logged in at the time. Although it is hard to be “pushed back” to the next month, I think CCAA is doing a very ncredible job of handling the situation. When they do “too many”
referrals, it overwhelms the system at the US Consulate in Guangzhou and families end up with referrals but waiting extra weeks before they can travel. I know that it is really hard not to have a definite wait time. This will require lots of patience on everyone’s part as we navigate through not having a more exact way of predicting referral and travel times. Please do not worry that they are “running out of babies in China”. This is not the case at this point. There are lots of babies being referred to CCAA. I believe that the main issue is the huge number of dossiers coming in to China at this point.

So that's that .... so they do only a certain number then push those left to the next month, which in turns pushes that months back ... so how many more months will we be pushed back? An expected wait time of 9 - 12 months!!!!! UGH