To make sure you are selected among other
applicants, share your current location, Not
local government,
just your current state of Resident.
He had been correct to identify the purpose of the provision as being not
just to ensure that a relationship should begin to be established between the adopters and the child over a continuous period in a domestic context, but also to enable the domestic authorities (in this case, the
local English adoption agency) to assess the
applicants, and the relationship each enjoyed with the child.