There are times when you look at the document list and almost despair but as you go through the list one by one, the reaction of the social care system was a bit of a revelation.
Take for instance the police verification report. Primarily it is a report which says you are of good character as a couple and have no court cases / police complaints against you. But their is only one office in Mumbai who accepts the application for this report. The CID office happened to be about 2 hours away from our home. So unless you are net savvy or have good contacts you will land up at the office and then be given a long list of documents they want, which will bring you back home and take you another few days to prepare.
For us, we managed to somehow get the number of the relevant department in the CID office after calling 10 different police information numbers. We managed to get the list of documents on the phone and prepared the same.
When i landed up at the CID office I realised that a form has to be filled hwich needed both my husband and my signature. So you come back get the signature and go back again. Then you realise that the line of form submission takes around 1 and half hour to clear. When you reach the window they look at you with surprise and a bit of awe.
"Dattak Ahe?" (for adoption?)
Haan.
"OK. You Shouldn't have waited, there is a special line for it."
Considering there were no other applicants on that day for it and there was no board there is no way of knowing.
Anyways, suddenly they are very nice and polite with you. They give you special treatment and tell you that we can approach our nearest police station at the earliest and tell them the verification is for Adoption and it will be fast tracked.
After two weeks of CID office meeting, we went to TWO police stations in our vicinity to find out about our application and we were told they haven't received any document from CID office!!! We will have to go back and find out what happened.
At that point we decided to concentrate on finishing other documents. And just a day before we planned to leave for the orphange to submit what ever documents we had, the bell rings and a cop is standing at your door asking if we had applied for a verification report. This is after one and a half month of application.
We welcome him in and he is very admirable of our intent to adopt. He is even more impressed that we are adopting from a far off Maharashtrian village (which incidentally is his village). He sat with us and talked to us about what a noble decision it is. And how fortunate the child will be. And we tell him, that we will be the fortunate ones when the child gets here.
Now, we have to go back to the CID office at some point and collect the report. Sigh! Like I said patience and determination will get us there.
Take for instance the police verification report. Primarily it is a report which says you are of good character as a couple and have no court cases / police complaints against you. But their is only one office in Mumbai who accepts the application for this report. The CID office happened to be about 2 hours away from our home. So unless you are net savvy or have good contacts you will land up at the office and then be given a long list of documents they want, which will bring you back home and take you another few days to prepare.
For us, we managed to somehow get the number of the relevant department in the CID office after calling 10 different police information numbers. We managed to get the list of documents on the phone and prepared the same.
When i landed up at the CID office I realised that a form has to be filled hwich needed both my husband and my signature. So you come back get the signature and go back again. Then you realise that the line of form submission takes around 1 and half hour to clear. When you reach the window they look at you with surprise and a bit of awe.
"Dattak Ahe?" (for adoption?)
Haan.
"OK. You Shouldn't have waited, there is a special line for it."
Considering there were no other applicants on that day for it and there was no board there is no way of knowing.
Anyways, suddenly they are very nice and polite with you. They give you special treatment and tell you that we can approach our nearest police station at the earliest and tell them the verification is for Adoption and it will be fast tracked.
After two weeks of CID office meeting, we went to TWO police stations in our vicinity to find out about our application and we were told they haven't received any document from CID office!!! We will have to go back and find out what happened.
At that point we decided to concentrate on finishing other documents. And just a day before we planned to leave for the orphange to submit what ever documents we had, the bell rings and a cop is standing at your door asking if we had applied for a verification report. This is after one and a half month of application.
We welcome him in and he is very admirable of our intent to adopt. He is even more impressed that we are adopting from a far off Maharashtrian village (which incidentally is his village). He sat with us and talked to us about what a noble decision it is. And how fortunate the child will be. And we tell him, that we will be the fortunate ones when the child gets here.
Now, we have to go back to the CID office at some point and collect the report. Sigh! Like I said patience and determination will get us there.
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