Tuesday, June 13, 2006

May 2006 China Program Update-AFC Email

Greetings from Alliance!

We are writing to update you on news about referrals, the wait time, and families traveling to China.

Referrals
The Alliance for Children did not receive any referrals in May. The CCAA did update their website in the second half of May and reports that dossiers logged in before June 15th were referred. The trend has been that referrals are sent once per month towards the end of the month. Based on this group of referrals, the current wait time is about 11½ months. We do not have any news from the CCAA about the expected wait time, however based the experience of these last moths, we expect the wait to continue to increase, but slowly. If we get any new information about the length of the wait, we will update you as soon as possible

The next group of Alliance dossiers for which we are waiting for referrals were logged in June 16th and then June 20th after that.

Travel
Three Alliance families traveled to Guangxi Province in May to pick up their daughter. All of the families are back at home and doing well. We have four families in Guangdong Province this week and they have already picked up their daughters. Aside from a few colds, they are all doing well and moving smoothly through the process. We will also have one family traveling to China in June to bring home their child adopted through the Alliance waiting child program, the Green Passage Program.