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.
Lilypie

Sunday, September 28, 2008

No new updates from our agency regarding dossier submissions. Our dossier is 11th in line to be sent to the embassy. Please keep praying for us as the waiting con't to get more difficult. We know our child is out there and the timing will be in Gods perfect plan.

Monday, September 15, 2008

And the Wait Goes On- or was that supposed to be Beat Goes On

We continue waiting: updating documents as needed. Our dossier may not go to the DC embassy until Jan. I pray that is worst case scenario and that through some miracle it will be much sooner.

Sunday, September 7, 2008

continuing the paperchase

Thursday we sent new medicals and my udated FBI clearance to the agency. Previously, Maeven said we were 14th in line to have our dossier sent to the embassy, I think now its 13th. We may still need to wait 2-4 months before ours gets sent. Lets keep our hopes on the short wait. Things are moving slowly regarding the embassy but at least a few dossiers have made it through since the embassy had a staff change-over earlier in the year. We are prayerfully thankful that our agency is Hague accredited, that they seem to be in good favor with the Kaz authorites and that things should progress - even if it is slow.
Happy Fall to all- my favorite season of the year!

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