We should be OK

I finally talked to our agency about Joe's deployment, and I feel a lot better now. I was worried about our documents expiring before we got a referral. Once our Dossier was Logged in at the CCAA (China Center for Adoption Affairs) our documents stopped "aging" We will need to fill out a I-600A and re-take our fingerprints for the US consulate when we get close to referral, and not before. It is OK if those documents expire, as long as we have new ones when we travel to China to pick up Chloe.
With the arrival of referrals today, it looks like we won't get Chloe until sometime in 2009, and Joe will be home by then, so we are good to go.