The TA Countdown and ticker timing

Now we wait, again...(waiting is a very familiar theme with adoption). The countdown for our Travel Approval (TA) began on Friday, July 24 as that is the date GWCA sent out our signed LSC. The word is that is can take anywhere from 2-5 weeks for our approval to travel, with "WC" kids getting a TA turnaround on the quicker end. Here's hoping that to be true.

One of the questions we were asked involved our little countdown ticker on this page and why the length of time reads only 2.5 years. We started the ticker based on the date our dossier was officially logged in China (2/5/2007) not when we began the paperwork collection to form the dossier. While we were working on everything from June 2006, until you received your LID from CCAA with your completed dossier, your not eligible for a possible match with a child so we used that date to begin the official count down to baby Clark.