LID slowdown?

Is there a slowdown in people receiving their LID's right now? There seems to be a rumor floating that the person who logs Dossiers in has been out for a little while. Person? There is one person who logs in dossiers? Assuming the almost 10,000 adoptions a year thing is true, and remembering there are almost four weeks a year they don't work, that would be 208 a week, or 41 a day. So, yeah, I guess that could be a one person job. In an eight hour day that would be 5 an hour. I don't know how much paperwork is involved in the log-in process, but the way the Chinese government likes to overdo things on the paperwork, I'm guessing it could easily take 12 minutes to do it. Seriously, how many copies of that form do they really have to have when they exchange money for you? It takes them fifteen minutes and three people to exchange 100 dollars into yuan. They have to have three people look at it and mark on it and hold it up to the light and feel of it and smell it. And they all end up signing off on it, and there is that form you have to fill out that has three or four parts to it, and they have to mark down your passport number and information... just to change money. Okay, so it doesn't always take fifteen minutes - but on three occasions it did. Most of the rest of the time it took between five and ten minutes. And that is after you've stood in line. It was really ridiculous for it to take that long. And for you to have to fill out as much information about yourself as we had to. We weren't opening an account, we just wanted to exchange money! I'll stop ranting now. Wouldn't it be nice if the CCAA would hire a firm that comes in and helps you streamline things? Don't they understand that if it takes you two years to finish your adoption instead of one year, that it means you'll have one less year of your life to spend with your child? It means your child will lose their parent one year earlier in their life... and that could mean the difference in them having their parents alive for their wedding or not... or in them having their parents alive for the birth of their child or not. And as for the slowdown in travel approvals... that just seems almost criminal, to make the babies that are waiting in the cribs wait a month longer before they have a loving family. Making the parents wait is one thing, but once matches have been made I think they should make it a top priority to get the parents to the babies ASAP. There are people who've been waiting for more than 6 months for TA who are on the SN track. That should never happen. Back in 2002 and 2003, many people got their TA's back 10 days after the acceptances were sent back, and they travelled less than a month after referral. Now most people are waiting two months to travel. Those poor babies, waiting in their cribs, crying when they are hungry and having to wait until the next feeding time instead of having a family who will feed them when they are hungry instead of on schedule. Babies who need to be held and loved and played with. Babies who are kept alive but not stimulated. Laying in their cribs or tied into their potty chairs or propped up in a walker, waiting on the CCAA to send a piece of paper so their parents can come get them. Gee, I'm not bitchy today, am I? The wait is really getting to me. I know the CCAA does a good job. I know they had extra responsibilities piled on them last year and that has slowed things down considerably. And, that apparently coincided with a lot of extra parent dossiers coming in at the same time that less baby dossiers were coming in (because less babies are being abandoned, which is a GREAT thing). I get that.. but I am very frustrated that they can't get TA's out in a timely manner. That bothers me a LOT more than the wait to referral. Also, would it be so hard for the CCAA to give an estimate? If they think things are going to remain at half months, would it be so hard for them to make a note of that on their site? Or, if they are pretty sure they'll be able to go back to whole months in the near future, maybe they could let us know that on their site? It's really easy for them to post updates and news items now.. why can't they let us know a rough idea of how they think things are going to go in the next few months? Is it possible that they don't know? Maybe that's it, they don't have any idea how much paperwork will arrive for the babies until it arrives, so they couldn't give an estimate even if they wanted to.