About Kazakhstan

Kazakhstan is in central asia. It was once part of the Soviet Union. It is nestled to the south of Russia and northeast of China. The national language is Kazakh but the common language spoken is Russian.
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Sunday, June 29, 2008

Welcoming Summer








June 14th- Mom, Dave and I went to Makinaw Island for Lilac festival. The weather was perfect and the lilacs were gorgeous! This time of year one can expect anything in the weather. We went prepared for rain , cold, wind, you name it. We had a perfect day and topped it off with a stop in Cross Village (north of Petosky and Harbor Springs) to have dinner at our favorite Polish restaurant.





Friday, June 27, 2008

So, now we have all documents needed for our dossier except the FBI clearances ( email from FBI states "in process" and Letter from Daves accountant who has not responded to emails. Hmh? Must be on vacation. All documents have been notarized.. THANK-YOU Kitty. I have attempted to fax them to Maeven for checking but the fax number is not answering and I just found out 2 people including Maeven are out of the office today. So- holding until Monday.

Wednesday, June 25, 2008

An Inch Closer...
Now that we have the I-171 we can move the ball closer to dossier submission. We have some vacation days starting July 9th and plan to go to Lansing for Apostille stamps on the 10th. We would have liked to drop everything and go now but work schedules, redo'ing now outdated documents and an upcoming holiday with friends coming to visit prevent us from going sooner. I will be patient and continue to plod along. Please keep us in your prayers.

Monday, June 23, 2008

One little step closer

Saturday June 21- received the 171-H -our immigration pre-approval. But also realized when looking through dossier documents that several of them need to be re-done because they are more than 4 months old. This stinks.

Monday, June 2, 2008

Hello to all. We continue to wait for our Immigration pre-approval to come through. I am hoping that it will come by the end of June. Until then- PATIENCE!!

Timeline to Kazakhstan

  • July 28, 2009: Gotcha Day
  • June 17, 2009: Court in Ust-K
  • May 21, 2009: left for Ust-Kamenogorsk
  • May 7, 2009: received LOI and region assignment to Ust-Kamenogorsk
  • March 12, 2009: dossier approved and sent to Kazakhstan
  • Feb. 26 2009: dossier sent to Kazakhstans DC embassy
  • Jan. 23 2009: updated documents apostilled and fed-ex'd to AA
  • Jan. 20 2009: received FBI clearance
  • Jan. 7 2009: Re-did the Re-do of the FBI fingerprinting (Kari) and sent for clearance
  • Dec. 19 2008: Re-did FBI fingerprinting and sent for clearance
  • July 11: Dossier authenticated and Fed-ex'd to Adoption Ark.
  • June 21: received I-171h
  • April 19- received fingerprinting notice in the mail
  • Feb. 13 went to Sherrif dept- got black fingers (fingerprinting) for FBI clearance
  • Feb. 8: received dossier packet via email from AA (Adoption Ark)
  • February 6: mailed contract and initial paperwork
  • 2008