Journey to Our Daughter Anna: Still No LOA on Day 88

Introducing our daughter......

Name: Sun Huai Ping (孙怀平), now Anna M. D.
Birthday: 02/01/2006 (2006年2月1日)
Located: Hangzhou Children's Welfare Institute (浙江省杭州儿童福利院)
http://journeytomyanna.blogspot.com/2008/09/we-got-daughter_5054.html

Timeline
05/05/2008: Applied with Adoption Agency #1
08/25/2008: Switched to Adoption Agency #2
09/17/2008: Referral! - Connected with little Anna
09/18/2008: LOI; 09/23/2008: PA; 10/23/2008: I-800A approved;
10/31/2008: DTC; 11/07/2008: LID!!!
02/09/2009: LOA!!!!!; 03/16/2009: TA ;
03/23/2009: Gotcha Day; 04/01/2009: CA; 04/03/2009: Home

China Adoption Acronyms:
LID - Log in Date; DTC - Dossier to China
SN - special needs; NSN - non special needs
LOI - Letter of Intent (used in the SN process)
LOA - Letter of Acceptance, the document that allows you to officially accept a referral;
TA - Travel Approval; CA -Consulate Appointment

Tuesday, February 3, 2009

Still No LOA on Day 88

We are now at day 88 of our wait for LOA! Our agency called CCAA for an update of our LOA status and found out that there was a payment issue. Our dossier was moved to the Department 2 (Placement Department) in mid January and they were ready to issue our LOA. However, with the payment not being transferred into CCAA’s bank account, they cannot issue our LOA. Our agency sent the payment with our DTC back in late October and it is hard to understand why it is taking so long to have the money transferred. I hope this can be sorted out very soon, so that we can have our LOA!