Someone’s home video of the orphanage where Megan is.
We received our Chinese adoption referral today. Here is the link.
Updated on the CCAA website just a few minutes ago:
“The CCAA has finished the review of the adoption application documents registered with our office before December 31, 2005.
The CCAA has finished the placement of children for the families whose adoption application documents were registered with our office before August 9, 2005. ”
Based on the updated CCAA website and the tracking of a package that is currently in transit from Beijing to our adoption agency, I think it’s almost a certainty that the package contains our referral (our application was received in China on July 25, 2005).
Just a note: There is the possibility that the package headed to my adoption agency doesn’t have referrals. I very much think it will contain my travel group’s referrals (my application was in a group of 11 or so applications sent by my agency to China at the same time). But nobody will know for sure until my agency opens up the package on Monday. There is the possiblity (although, I think, slight) there will be a big letdown on Monday.
I was not given the tracking number by my agency. I discovered it on my own.
Continuing to track the referral package: As of 9AM Saturday, the package is at the DHL facility in Dublin, California (24 miles from our adoption agency). Here’s a snapshot of the tracking page.
I am tracking the delivery package with our Chinese adoption referral. The package is headed to Orinda (the headquarters of our adoption agency). Here’s the tracking page (as of Saturday morning 12:51 AM). You may need to enlarge the next window after clicking on the link to see it.
Our referral is on its way from China. It should arrive at our agency on Monday. We’ll receive a phone call with details on Monday. And we’ll go to the local office of our agency on Tuesday to see the pictures and pick up a copy of the referral.
This should be the end of the waiting. We’re expecting to receive information about our new daughter this week or next week. First, we’ll get a call from our adoption agency telling us they have received from China a referral of a baby girl for us. We’ll get details about her (name, birthdate, where she is living in China, size, etc.) during the phone call. Then the next day, we’ll go to our adoption agency’s local office, look at 2-3 pictures China sent with the referral, fill out a one page form informing China we are accepting the referral, and take home the referral and pictures.
After they receive our referral acceptance form, China will send us a notice of travel approval in about 4 weeks and we will travel from 1-3 weeks after the receipt of the travel approval.