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This morning my daughter and I walked down to the post office and mailed off our completed, notarized, apostilled dossier and our notarized official acceptance papers and one arm and one leg--ha!

When the agency gets it, they will direct each to the proper authorities in India and we will be waiting for our NOC--No Objection Certificate- from CARA the g'vt agency which oversees adoptions. This process usually takes about 2 months. It should also be about 2 months until we find out the amount of/if we get a grant toward this adoption.

Once we receive NOC, that document along with all the others can be presented to the judge for scrutiny in the Bangalore courts and eventually we will be granted guardianship--Christians may not adopt in India, we must be made only guardians and then adopt her in our own country. Actually, the official referral acceptance papers had a document from Shawn requesting guardianship, and one from me saying that my husband was applying for guardianship and that I'm aware of that and will go along with it and treat his ward as my own child. Interesting!

Probably not much news for awhile, but I may have something to talk about at some point, so keep checking in!