we are now guardianship council approved! woo-hoo!!! all we need to do now is get a court date, survive the court hearing, wait for the fifteen day appeal deadline to pass, then go to almaty and wade our way through u.s. immigration bureaucracy, and then we actually get to come home.
after we left the guardianship council hearing, i asked our local coordinator how long it would be before our court date. she laughed and said "a long time."
