So much for a happy Chinese New Year
We got word from our China facilitator that "owing to the very busy schedule of meetings of directors at CCAA before the Chinese new year holiday, our TAs (Travel Authorizations) have not been signed off by the head directors. We have to wait until after the Chinese New Year holiday."
Which, in all likelihood, means we won't travel until late February and won't be home until March. I've already had to reschedule about two dozen patients, most of whom were not very happy about being moved. I can't go through the stress of rescheduling them again. Also, I've hired a doctor to fill in for me for the entire month of February, and she already has patients booked, so I can't just tell her not to come in. So now I get to sit around the house for two weeks moping and cursing. Not that I don't have a million things to do, but it's hard to focus when you're mind is on your child whose been waiting in an orphanage halfway around the world for 6 months when she could have been home before Christmas.
I am trying so hard to be calm and to not let things bother me, but I am so upset right now that I can't even sleep. It is 4:30 in the morning. I saw in one of the online forums yesterday that several LOAs were issued this week, all for families who submitted their Letters of Intent (LOI) just a few weeks ago (including one family who just submitted their LOI on January January 7!). I am very angry that the CCAA found time to issue LOAs to these families, when there are at least a dozen families who waited MONTHS for their LOA and now are going to wait 5-6 weeks for TA. I am just fed up with the apparent lack of common sense in the people running things.
But then again, what do I expect from the country who brought us lead paint in children's toys and toxic additives to pet food and infant formula?
Which, in all likelihood, means we won't travel until late February and won't be home until March. I've already had to reschedule about two dozen patients, most of whom were not very happy about being moved. I can't go through the stress of rescheduling them again. Also, I've hired a doctor to fill in for me for the entire month of February, and she already has patients booked, so I can't just tell her not to come in. So now I get to sit around the house for two weeks moping and cursing. Not that I don't have a million things to do, but it's hard to focus when you're mind is on your child whose been waiting in an orphanage halfway around the world for 6 months when she could have been home before Christmas.
I am trying so hard to be calm and to not let things bother me, but I am so upset right now that I can't even sleep. It is 4:30 in the morning. I saw in one of the online forums yesterday that several LOAs were issued this week, all for families who submitted their Letters of Intent (LOI) just a few weeks ago (including one family who just submitted their LOI on January January 7!). I am very angry that the CCAA found time to issue LOAs to these families, when there are at least a dozen families who waited MONTHS for their LOA and now are going to wait 5-6 weeks for TA. I am just fed up with the apparent lack of common sense in the people running things.
But then again, what do I expect from the country who brought us lead paint in children's toys and toxic additives to pet food and infant formula?
posted by Milinda and Edward @ 4:50 AM
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We are with the same agency and have the same LOA date. I am so feeling your pain. It's going to be a long holiday week.
The LOA, that came for the family, who was LOI on January 7th, was for a child who has been in an orphanage for 9 1/2 years and the family was logged in for a long time...all the way through review. That is different from logging in and sending LOI at the same time. Then you have to still go through Administration, Review, and the Matching Room...instead of being out of review, sending LOI, and getting through matching room quickly.
You are one of the lucky ones with a referral of a baby you will be meeting very soon. You have so much to be thankful for.
Enjoy this special time.
Erin, the point is not that my LOA took so much longer than that family's. The point is that the CCAA reportedly "didn't have time" to get to TA's, yet found time to get LOAs out that weren't even expected by the parents for at least another couple of weeks. It's the lack of any logical sequence of events which has me frustrated. I don't begrudge those families their LOAs - I just think the CCAA should have spent an equal amount of time getting TAs signed off before leaving for a week.
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