When? and Are you trying to be like Angelina Joli?

I will start with the second one first.
No, we are not trying to be like Angelina Joli. Unlike Angelina Joli, I can not have biological children(the easy way, anyway) and I want to be a mom, so I adopt. I applaud her for bringing international adoption into the spotlight so that more orphans around the world can find a home, but I am not adopting to be like her. We are adopting because we want to grow our family, and China has a very good program.

When? We don't know exactly. Our Dossier (all of our paperwork and legal documents) was sent to China in October of 2006, that is why we have a DTC date of Oct. 13, 2006. The China Center for Adoption Affairs Logged our Dossier in at their offices on Nov. 13, 2006 (our LID). Our Dossier then went to Translation, and is currently Pending Review. The Review Room is where they will look at all of our documents to make sure everything is the way it is supposed to be. If they have any questions about any of our paperwork, they will ask it while it is in Review. We are currently hoping that we make it through the Review Room with no problems or else our Dossier could get held back, and our Referral could be delayed. The CCAA is currently reviewing documents that were registered with their office in April 2006. The CCAA goes in the order that they receive the Dossiers. After we get through the Review Room, our Dossier will go to the Referral Room where our Dossier will be matched with a babies file. Currently there are about 20,000 people in front of us waiting for a referral, so we are expecting it to take awhile. Probably close to three years. The baby will still be between 6-12 months, because we won't be matched until we get to the Referral phase.