We now have NOC!!
We were granted NOC June 30th and got a call from our agency today to tell us the terrific news. The timeline we were initially told continues to be blown out of the water and I am so thrilled. The next step in our process is court and after the judge approves our adoption we will wait for our daughter's passport to be issued. Once the orphanage has her passport in hand we will book our flights!! As of right now it looks very plausible that we will travel before the end of the year if not sooner.
The biggest advantage about getting NOC is that we can now send a photo book to our daughter. I'm not sure if she has been told about us yet but now she will actually get to see pictures of her family. I was not expecting to receive NOC this quick so I need to get her photo book finished and sent to our agency.
This is what the remainder of our process looks like:
Court: 2 months
Written Approval from the judge: Days or weeks
Passport: 2-4 weeks
Travel: 2 weeks from physical passport being sent to the orphanage
Once again this timeline is not concrete. There is a good chance we could have to wait longer at any one of these steps. I am longing to have our daughter home before Christmas so please pray for a quick review of our case. We will continue to let our friends and family know of any progress. I can't wait to finally show you our daughter's picture.
Maybe an early Christmas present! :)
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