Ok, here is the latest news. As of last Thursday we are still waiting on City Hall to release the corrected version of Madison's original birth certificate. We found out that our attorney has evidently gotten frustrated with this situation as well and has hired someone to do nothing but to go City Hall each day to try to get the birth certificate. We also found out that there is a new agency forming called the National Registry of Persons. All Guatemalan citizens will have to register with this agency and be issued an ID card. We are not sure if this will cause a delay for us or not. Our attorney is hoping that he can get around this without it causing any delays. The City Halls are also fighting this new agency because of a power struggle as to who should have the right to issue ID cards.
On April 21, we will have been in this adoption process for a full year. We understand that many countries can take several years for an adoption to be completed but traditionally Guatemala has not been one of those and for most cases is still not one of those countries. I believe that Madison is probably one of our attorney's oldest cases he is working on and that maybe he finally wants to speed things up as well.
Please keep this entire process in your Prayers. We would love to see Madison home by this summer sometime.
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