Our agency told us that we could have a LID for weeks before being notified of it. Since another family in our group got theirs the first week in March and their LID was March 1, I contacted the agency just in case they had got ours and not notified us. They had and had not. So our LID is March 18! Don't know why it's 2-1/2 weeks after theirs-they were all hand carried to China-but we'll take it :-)