We're Legal

It finally happened. And patience has paid off. The judge in India has approved our case and signed the papers. How wonderful is that? He actually approved the case on December 8 when it was scheduled to be heard. We received notification yesterday (December 18) that it was signed. There’s a delay because after the case was approved, papers had to be drawn up by the lawyers and then the judge has to revisit the case. But that hurdle is over!

Next, Ms. Roy, who is the head of the Indian Society for the Rehabilation of Children (ISRC) in Kolkata, will take the paper (called Legals) to the U.S. Consulate to attest and will file for her passport there. The papers are then shipped to the adoption agency in Tulsa and are used to file for our I-600 a or b. Once her passport is issued, we are able to travel. We’re looking at a month or so.

Yay!

p.s. Since I wrote this, her papers were attested by the U.S. Consulate and the passport has been filed for—and we expect her papers to arrive in the U.S. next week. Maybe we'll travel mid-January which is also the time our fingerprints with the INS expire but that's another story.