Waiting
It’s June 8 today which means we’ve been waiting 6 weeks now for India to open back up after they went into lockdown due to skyrocketing Covid numbers. The most recent update is that the lockdown has been extended until June 14. News sources say that the government in our daughters state (Karnataka) will be determining in the next few days whether to extend the lockdown again. All of our documents for our daughters passport are in India right now simply waiting to be taken to the passport office as soon as it opens up and public transportation is allowed again. We are cautiously optimistic that the passport offices will open on June 14, but also recognizing that it could be weeks yet before things are fully opened enough for our daughter to get her passport. If the passport office does open on June 14, there is likely to be a huge backlog of passport applications and we are unsure of how quickly the director of our daughters orphanage will be able to get an appointment. We’ve also been