The timeline to adopt from China may be long, but currently the steps are orderly and predictable. We've completed our paperwork and application to be approved in Nova Scotia, we submitted our paperwork for translation and application to China, our "DTC" or "date to China" was Sept 8, 2006. Our paperwork was received and registered by the CCAA on October 11, 2006 (the "magic date"). And we've been waiting since. The next bit step is review. Dossiers are logged in and moved to the "Review room" where CCAA staff look over the dossier to evaluate the candidates' eligibity for adoption. Adoptive parents may be accepted without questions, questionned and required to provide follow-up paperwork, or declined outright. Until now, I've kinda put that out of my mind as a "long in the future" process. But, I realized today we may be in the Review Room, being reviewed right now.
Agencies or areas are assigned to one review staff who works at his or her own pace through the pile. Right now, ALL of the families logged in on or before July 31, 2006 have moved out of Review. That means some review staff are working on August 1, but some review staff may be much further ahead, into September or even October.
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