HOW THE REVIEW ROOM WORKS!

Another family received LOA today who had a LID of 03/31/2008 (three weeks after our LID)!! As I continue to boo-hoo about the handful of others receiving LOA who have submitted their Dossier paperwork after we did, I am learning how the Review Room process works with CCAA.

Apparently, each review person has their own assigned agencies, or maybe even their own assigned country.

Sometimes one review person has twice as many files to review as someone else does that month, but the next month they may have half as many!

This means that one reviewer could be several months ahead of another reviewer, and may stay that way until their agencies have a big month and they get slowed down again. It is normal for one reviewer to still be working on February while another reviewer has made it to April.

Though this may not seem "fair".....it makes perfect sense as to why we haven't received our LOA yet and others with different adoption agencies have!

Yes, it's frustrating! But, we are all too familiar with having to be "patient" with international adoption! Our time will come!!

It has been 12 months since we received PA to adopt our little girl! I guess we should have started the paperwork BEFORE we received PA, but we didn't want to get our hopes up with all of the changes CCAA had made to the adoption process and their new requirements. I'll never forget the day that we received the email from our adoption agency saying "We received PA for you today"!! It was a very JOYOUS day!! And then we began the LONG process of trying to get our Dossier together....one delay after another! It has been QUITE the adventure! And, this is one adventure that I'm ready to bring to a closure! Some "good news" about our LOA would certainly be very welcomed right now!! That would definitely start the ball rolling in the direction of "closure"!! Come on LOA!!

This photo was emailed to me by Annemette Krag from Denmark who met Haley in October of 2007! Thanks for the picture of our little princess!!

Haley's sisters and brothers are anxiously awaiting her arrival (well, aren't we ALL?)!!