Rumor Queen

We've added a link to the right to the "Rumor Queen," which one of our travel buddies graciously shared with us. Apparently, the person who runs the site gathers information from people across the U.S. and from other countries. She also hears from agencies themselves as well as occasional tidbits from China. Apparently, you can discover CCAA referral processing dates and cut off dates from her site first. CCAA rarely updates their site until several days after this news is already available by rumor.

The news this past week was rather disappointing: CCAA seems to have only managed to send referals for log-in's between July 14 through July 22, 2005. That's a mere 9 days. As a reminder, our log-in is September 12, 2005.

According to our friend, there are some downsides to the rumor queen and to some of the yahoo china-adoption groups:
- People tend to gripe about things, especially because the wait is so long.
- Most of what the Rumor Queen posts is rumor, and she posts it as such. She rates her rumors on a scale based on how many sources (agencies) are hearing the same thing. However, you can't be sure if the rumors are true until referrals are actually sent. Fortunately, in most months, she has a very clear idea of what the next cutoff date will be about a week before referrals are sent.