Referrals, new blog & CIS price changes

Program Updates

Referrals came for the regular China program last week, and we would like to share more information on the children.  We have 9 families that received and accepted referrals for girls, from just under 5 months to 8 months old.  All the girls are from Yifeng County SWI in Jiangxi province.

We received 2 Letter of Acceptances (LOA) for China Waiting Children families this week!   Five families with the China Waiting Child program headed to China this week to soon meet their newest children and one family will be leaving in 2 weeks.

Congratulations to all of these families!

Journey of Hope & Special Focus

We have had a lot of interest recently in our Special Focus as well as our Journey of Hope children.  To learn more about these programs, please go to our website at:  http://www.ftia.org/waitingchildren/JOHList.asp    Families that currently have active applications with FTIA can see all the files of the Journey of Hope children and the Special Focus children by joining the JOH Yahoo group at:  http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FTIA-JOH.

If you aren’t currently active with FTIA, just fill out and fax us an application (with no fees) and once received, we will send you an invitation to join the Yahoo group.

Our Journey of Hope blog can be seen at: http://ftia-joh.blogspot.com.

Other Information

Offices in China are opening back up again this Friday after being closed for the National Holiday!   The October Trade Fair in Guangzhou will begin next week and the Asian Games will also be held in Guangzhou November 12-27.  We don’t expect either of these events to affect any of our families travel plans. 

CIS has announced new fees for I600A and I800A applications starting 11/23/10.  For applications received after this date, the fee will now be $720 and biometrics will cost $85 per person.  This is up from the previous fees of $670 for the application and $80 for biometrics.