Referrals

To clarify referrals. Referrals are when you get to see your baby for the first time. It has the pictures and any related information. Referrals are given out by your LID (log in date in china). My LID is 12.25.06. When they send a batch of referrals they do them by LID's So the big question every month is how many LID did they do at a time. in 2003 they were doing 30 days worth. At one point from getting your LID it was an 18 month wait. Then they started doing 60 days at a time and the wait went down to 6 months. Then, kinda like the supply and demand theory, everyone and their brother decided to adopt from China. So the paperwork got worse. less babies, etc. 2005 ended up being so huge for LID's that it has taken forever to get thru. They have been working on Nov. 2005 LID's. They had so many LID's that it has taken them 6 months just to get thru Nov 2005. Referrals only come once a month, usually around the first week of the month. One month only 2 days of referrals were sent. This last time 5 days worth. LID's 11/26/05 - 11/30/05. Everyone is hoping that once they get thru the 2005 dates that there will be a speed up and we will hopefully be seeing more days in a batch. There is a site with all kinds of rumors on it. The woman who runs it takes polls of LID so that is how we get our ideas of how many people are logged in one month. Only time will tell.

Hope that helps!!!