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.

July 2006

07/10/2006 - Our social worker came to update our home study per the request of the INS office. This process has taken SOOO long! ($250)

June 2006

06/14/2006 - Sent our dossier to be apostilled by the government (who authenticates the notarizations).

06/26/2006 - Overnighted our Dossier package to our adoption worker. ($1,355)

April 2006

04/01/2006 - Due to the number of requests about the adoption process, we will regularly update this page to let you know what is going on. Please check back here as often as you would like. This log will start from this date forward, even though we actually started the process in the summer of 2005.

04/11/2006 We received copy of our completed home study ($750.00)..... YEAH!! Finally feels like we are making progress.

04/12/2006 Filed I-600A with INS to get permission to bring our daughter to the USA ($545.00). This takes 30-45 to get approval, so this gives us time to get our dossier completed and ready to send to Kazakhstan as soon as we get our INS clearance. Since our next step is to get the dossier translated into Russian and send to Kazakhstan.

04/15/2006 Received apostilled marriage certificate ($40.00)

04/18/2006 Submitted paperwork for FBI Clearance ($36.00)

04/19/2006 Fingerprinted for INS clearance ($140.00)

04/28/2006 Sent $1,600 to Adoption Agency and signed contracts to adopt Olivia