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I have officially moved into the 21st century by setting up this blog to document my adoption journey! April 27th will be the two-year anniversary of the log-in of my dossier with the CCAA (China Center for Adoption Affairs). How slow and fast time has gone! It is hard to believe that has taken this long and there appears to be at least another year of waiting before I will be matched with a child. Rumors are that after the Summer Olympics hosted by China (opening ceremonies 8/08/08) are completed, adoption processing might speed up. Until that time, based on recent trends of matching 7 days worth of applications received with children per month, the estimate of my matching is early August 2009 based on my original LID (log-in date).

However, I just learned last week that my dossier may no longer be grouped with the other 4/27/06 LID dossiers. During the review room last Spring, China wanted additional information about me so they pulled my dossier out. I think I got the call from Children's Home on Monday or Tuesday of that week in March 2007 and submitted the additional information requested back to them within a couple of days. Long story short, the CCAA should have received this information in about a week so maybe it was a quick enough turnaround to remain in the same group with the other 4/27/06 dossiers. According to Children's Home, I should be able to find out the status of the timing of my dossier when it gets closer to matching (next year). Nonetheless, it would have been helpful to know of the possibility of moving to a later date last year when all of this happened. I guess it's just one more thing I cannot control about the whole process. At least I'm still officially approved by China to adopt a child and I can't wait for it to happen!