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After getting our hopes up about being able to arrive in London and see all my family and friends there, even setting playdates and dinner dates, we have had to change plans. Despite my having Home Office website printouts confirming that Sofi is automatically entitled to British citizenship as a result of our having legitimately completed a Hague adoption, the British High Commission staff, who appear to believe they are the law and therfore have no need to comply with the law, have refused to accept what it is. The law says she is a British citizen. They disagree. They refuse, despite several email requests, to provide any legal authority on which they rely. We had opted then for the visit visa, and were told it would be done in a week, after a week, I finally forced my way to the visa people only to be told they are not satisfied we are just going for a visit and they do not have sufficient proof that we are not going to settle there. My having 2 homes there, a company and property ...

I have mixed feelings about leaving India now that the departure is imminent. In 9 days, we leave. We have applied for a family visit visa to the UK and have been told it will be issued this upcoming week. Accordingly we have booked flights to London on the 16th. We will stay there 12 days and then board a flight with my parents in tow to arrive in San Francisco. A few days after we arrive in the US, Sofi turns 2 on June 1, 2011. We are planning her birthday party for June 4. This will be a nice time for Sofi to meet some of her new friends in the bay area. Ironically - or perhaps not - now that the departure is imminent, we have been making lots of friends or getting into a better groove with the people we had already met before. It is probably a combination of the length of time we have been here, but also that the paperwork aspect is much less, and we are more often in Delhi rather than on the go for court cases or family visits. We are starting to pack up our Delhi home and put thi...