The Guatemalan Congress passed the 3rd reading of it's adoption law today. It is NOT the law we were hoping for unfortunately. The good news is that it does contain a "grandfather" clause for in process cases. That is assuming Guatemala can set up an agency to register all the in process cases 30 days after the effective date of Dec 31. Who knows how that will go. The bad news is that this law is not good for the future of guatemalan adoptions. Though I'm thankful that it looks like - eventually - Natalie will make it home, I'm horribly sad for all the babies who will never make it when this law goes into effect and makes everything fall apart.
Our agency is analyzing the new law now and will let us know the details as soon as they have them - which will probably take a day or two.
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