Rumor: CCAA working on matches, Dec Review, Spanish #s, TAs

CCAA Working on Matches... One of the powerhouse agencies had issued notice that the CCAA is "working on" the next set of matches and is currently moving to its new offices. This is the powerhouse agency that would not comment on the move prior to this. The agency doesn't give any hints as to the cutoff dates for the next group (gee of course not, wouldn't want to give a girl any relief from this slow descent into insanity!) but do say that they "hope" the CCAA will mail referrals by the end of July.

December LIDs in Review Room... I've received word that at least one December parent was contacted for additional information, which seems to imply that the December LID group is now in the Review Room.

Spanish Newspapers Report Adoption Data... Gracias to my friend "J" in Spain for emailing with the news that the Spanish newspaper "La Vanguardia" published the following information today: During the last 5 years Spain has adopted 21,968 foreign children. China is the most popular country to adopt from. In 2005 2,753 children were adopted from China, 15% more than in 2004.

	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005
Latin America	721	593	679	585	564
Asia	1,107	1,586	1,196	2,577	2,854
Eastern Europe	1,569	1,295	1,913	2,111	1,727
Africa	31	51	163	268	278
TOTAL:	3,428	3,625	3,951	5,541	5,423

Special Needs TAs... Yesterday a whole bunch of TAs came in for waiting children. I saw the happy announcements popping up all over the Yahoo newsgroups. One waiting parent said there were some early May LOIs that received travel approval this week and they also had some TAs for those DTC January or earlier but she hadn't seen any with DTC after February that were TA this week. Congratulations to all the parents receiving good information about travel! No word yet on NSN (non-special needs) TAs for the recent June referral group.