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

Thursday, February 26, 2009


Yippee,

Our dossier was sent to the embassy!! It will probably spend 2-4 weeks there.

5 comments:

Becki Stone said...

Yeah!!! That is wonderful news!

Lori @ Five of My Own said...

We were in KZ 6 months from this point...and Alla and Maeven apologized that 6 months was a long time. Start practicing your Russian!

aultfamily said...

Kari,

That is sooooooooo AWESOME! I am very excited for you and did a little happy dance when I got your e-mail. I have been thinking of you ALL week long wondering, Did it go yet? Did it go yet? Did it go yet? Now you can sit back and enjoy the ride. Okay 'enjoy' isn't exactly the right word! :0

MaryAnn

Kim said...

Congratulations!!!

The Gobble's (Lanetta) said...

SO EXCITED for you.... you realize how close we are in this process.. we could end up there together... that would be so cool!!!!

just know we are so excited for you...
YEAH!!!

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