DTC

Well, I have no official word, but our dossier should be in China. Yippee! In the next four to six weeks we should get a log in date (LID) and a packet of information from the Embassy in China. Not much, but one more step in the right direction

**UPDATE 2/14/07**
As of last Friday our dossier was on it's way to China. We could be getting our LID sooner than expected, instead of four weeks it could be two! We could have a February LID instead of March...that's GREAT news!

explanation

I feel like I should explain a little better about the wait time for our referral. I know I have said it can change, but I would like to give an example. The people who are receiving their referrals right now (actually 2/1/07) were LID in between 9/28/05-10/13/05. When they began the process they were told that their wait time would be 6-9 months...it ended up being 16 months. I say that so you can understand that NOTHING is guaranteed. We can only guess based on what we see right now. A lot of people think the wait time will get longer and longer, maybe up to 24 months. However, there are some new restrictions that the CCAA has put out that will take effect 5/1/07. This will reduce the number of applicants significantly, but that will not decrease the number of applicants who have already been logged in. I don't know if I made this more confusing or cleared things up. I guess I say this so everyone knows that my estimate on when we will get a referral is just a best guess. Over the course of the next 16 months this could change 20 times, so just be ready.