We left Salt Lake City, Utah Tuesday at 10:50am. We then arrived in Illinois at 2:56pm
Which is were we met another couple that we were scheduled to travel with, that is also adopting a 2 year old from our same orphanage. They are Paula and Jim Mikos from Chicago/Rockford, Illinois. Then we left Illinois about 4:45pm
Tuesday, March 20, 2007
Wednesday, March 14, 2007
March 2007
03/02/2007 - Sent final payment to Adoption Ark ($700)
03/08/2007 - Received our Visa's in the mail.
03/14/2007 - Booked our flights to Kazakhstan, it is all official now we leave March 20th, and should finally meet our daughter March 23rd. It has been almost two years, it is so hard to believe.
03/08/2007 - Received our Visa's in the mail.
03/14/2007 - Booked our flights to Kazakhstan, it is all official now we leave March 20th, and should finally meet our daughter March 23rd. It has been almost two years, it is so hard to believe.
Tuesday, February 27, 2007
February 2007
02/21/2007 - Well after a LONG wait we finally received our LOI (official Letter of Invitation) which means that we can apply for our visa to go to Kazakhstan and meet our little girl, I laughed and cried, I am so excited... it reminds me of that excitement you have at Christmas time that seems to fade as an adult :) We are filling out our Visa forms now and will pay the rush fee and will hopefully have visas in a week, then we can book our flights. (Visa's $245 each = $490) We also ordered the money from the bank, apparently all bills must be crisp and new, or they won't accept them. I have a 30 page document to read on travel and need to get a few things together and start looking into the flights.
02/23/2007 - Completed Visa Application.
02/27/2007 - Picked up money orders to and sent our Visa Application for Kazakhstan (480, including rush fee), we will hopefully be traveling in 2-3 weeks...($490)
02/23/2007 - Completed Visa Application.
02/27/2007 - Picked up money orders to and sent our Visa Application for Kazakhstan (480, including rush fee), we will hopefully be traveling in 2-3 weeks...($490)
Thursday, November 30, 2006
November 2006
11/10/2006 - We received word that our dossier has been in Kazakhstan for a week now, we are so excited!
11/30/2006 - We just received word that our dossier is in the second ministry, so we could get our invitation to travel at anytime.
11/30/2006 - We just received word that our dossier is in the second ministry, so we could get our invitation to travel at anytime.
Friday, October 6, 2006
October 2006
10/06/2006 - Overnighted the letter from CPA verifying my husbands income. Sadly it was more difficult then we thought to have a letter written and signed by a CPA. Then when the letter was completed their notary was ill. I was able to pick up the letter today, I rushed it be be apostilled and then overnighted it to our worker. Now we are praying this will be it and our dossier will be headed to Kazakhstan. ($60)
Tuesday, September 26, 2006
September 2006
09/01/2006 - The rest of our paperwork is FINALLY done, and apostilled, so it is being overnighted today to the adoption agency. So our dossier wil be going to Kazakhstan SOON.
09/19/2006 - Received notification that our social workers license expires Sept 30th 2006, so they want us to get his new license, get it notarized and then apostilled, then also learned that we were supposed to get our INS letter notarized and apostilled... ugghhh! Just when we thought we were done.
09/21/2006 - Received our social workers notarized copy of his new license.
09/22/2006 - Took the social worker's license to get apostilled with the notarized copy of our INS forms, and then overnighted to our adoption worker. ($120)
09/26/2006 - The adoption worker called and wanted a letter verifying my husband's employment, which is so frustrating as we keep thinking that we are done. This means even if I can get the letter first thing on the 27th, and have it notarized and overnighted to me- I won't get until the 28th. Then I have to rush to get it apostilled (and pay another $60 for the RUSH service). If I am lucky I might be able to get it overnighted the same day and to our adoption worker by Friday. Then it needs to be translated and then HOPEFULLY our dossier will go to Kazakhstan next week. I was so hoping to get our little girl home by Christmas but it looks less likely all the time. We have been at this process for well over a year, and I hate that we can't bring her home and worry about her all the time... from how she is feeling, how well she is eating and if she knows that we love her and are trying as hard as we can to get her. They won't tell her about us until we get permission to travel and meet her... which I understand as they don't want the children to get their hopes up in case anything happens... I just really want our little girl to know that we WANT her; that we PICKED her. I hope some day she will be able to see how much we went through to bring her home, so she will know how MUCH we want her.
09/19/2006 - Received notification that our social workers license expires Sept 30th 2006, so they want us to get his new license, get it notarized and then apostilled, then also learned that we were supposed to get our INS letter notarized and apostilled... ugghhh! Just when we thought we were done.
09/21/2006 - Received our social workers notarized copy of his new license.
09/22/2006 - Took the social worker's license to get apostilled with the notarized copy of our INS forms, and then overnighted to our adoption worker. ($120)
09/26/2006 - The adoption worker called and wanted a letter verifying my husband's employment, which is so frustrating as we keep thinking that we are done. This means even if I can get the letter first thing on the 27th, and have it notarized and overnighted to me- I won't get until the 28th. Then I have to rush to get it apostilled (and pay another $60 for the RUSH service). If I am lucky I might be able to get it overnighted the same day and to our adoption worker by Friday. Then it needs to be translated and then HOPEFULLY our dossier will go to Kazakhstan next week. I was so hoping to get our little girl home by Christmas but it looks less likely all the time. We have been at this process for well over a year, and I hate that we can't bring her home and worry about her all the time... from how she is feeling, how well she is eating and if she knows that we love her and are trying as hard as we can to get her. They won't tell her about us until we get permission to travel and meet her... which I understand as they don't want the children to get their hopes up in case anything happens... I just really want our little girl to know that we WANT her; that we PICKED her. I hope some day she will be able to see how much we went through to bring her home, so she will know how MUCH we want her.
Friday, August 25, 2006
August 2006
08/25/2006 - Sent $1,355 to adoption agency to pay for dossier and post placement fees. Waiting on the state to get the last few items apostilled.
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