The wait times are getting a lot longer and I mean a lot longer. At first we were told 24 months now we're being told 36 to referral but I'm thinking it will be longer than that. Of course people around us ask why and I wish as much as the next person that I had an answer but I don't and our agency doesn't either. The CCAA who does the matching has simply slowed down its process and there is no guarantee things will speed up after the Olympics. That is more of a wish than a fact. It could happen, or it might not. What is known is that the CCAA is currently only making it through a couple of days with each batch of LIDS.
A few other possibilites for the increase in wait times may be due to the fact that Russia stopped all adoptions and has required all US agencies to recertify and many people jumped ship and switched to China. Guatemala's system was becoming so corrupt (with documented cases of baby theft) that that country has closed its doors for adoption for now, and again people in that program switched to China. Those factors, plus the growing demand for Chinese babies in a country that is seeing families in the cities now keep their daughters (which is great by the way) now means there are less "orphans".
What people can know for sure is that we hate it more than anyone and can use all the support we can get while we wait. We are in this for the long hall and know in the end we will get the perfect child for us, you'll be one of the first to know when we know something, thank you for your thoughts.
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When she finally comes I know you'll think she was worth the wait. In the meantime, though, I can only imagine how hard it is to wait.
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