I'm almost incoherant with nerves and to-do lists because we finally have travel dates! Our letter of invitation (in Russian) came last week and two days ago we finally got our travel dates! We have booked our tickets, thanks to Barbara Walters at Go To Russia Travels (yes, that is really her name). We are leaving for Almaty on March 9th... and arriving on March 11th!!!!! I don't even want to think about how many house in the air that means... but the important thing is that we are officially going. We will be back on April 12th (a.k.a - Easter).
After two years of longing and one year of serious planning, we will actually find and meet our son in less than ten days! Unbelievable!
I'll post an itinerary once I knock down some of the millions of things I have to do before we leave.
Stay tuned, folks, we are in the final countdown!
Paka!
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Umm... On the other side of the world.
We're IN Kazakhstan!
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- Vinegrete
- Tid Bits
- Spring is Here!
- Sunny Day = Pictures Only
- Tour of the neighborhood
- Garrett's playtime and big kid lunch
- Teething Hurts
- Party Bus and a Plumbing Monster
- A hum drum day
- Happy Nauryz!!!
- A note to PAPs
- Our Cultural Education Continues
- The Nauryz Play!
- Barfy McPukeypants
- Road to Schuchinsk
- Sampson Shorn!
- Thoughts from Kokshetau
- Just photos
- Sleepy but smiling
- A smiling baby and a view around the nursery
- A teething baby and the Eagles of Victory!
- Introducing Garrett Ruslan Snyder!
- Almaty Amazing!
- We're Here!
- Travel Dates!
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Where is Kazakhstan?
Umm... On the other side of the world.
Our Adoption Timeline... Are We There Yet?
- TBD - Return to Kaz to pick up our son
- April 24, 2009 - Court waiting period over. Garrett's adoption is FINAL!
- April 10, 2009 - Court date
- March 26, 2009 - Petition to Adopt Garrett submitted to the court
- March 12-26, 2009 - 14 day bonding period
- March 12, 2009 - Meet our son!
- March 12, 2009 - Fly To Astana and Drive to Kokshetau
- March 9, 2009 - Fly to Almaty
- March 1, 2009 - Travel Dates!
- November 23, 2008 - Dossier is released from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and sent to the Ministry of Education
- September 3, 2008 - Dossier is in Kazakhstan at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs
- August 20, 2008 - Redo our homestudy with a Hague Accredited Agency
- July 30, 2008 - Translation Finished. Dossier Sent to Kazakh Consulate in NY.
- June 2, 2008 - Finished our Dossier
- May 24, 2008 - Our I-171H is here!!!
- May 7, 2008- Fingerprinted Again
- April 21, 2008 - Adoption Education Class
- April 17, 2008 - Homestudy Edits Complete. One Copy Sent to USCIS for our I-600A and one copy sent to us for our dossier.
- April 9, 2008 - Final Homstudy Documents In. Homestudy is getting fine tuned by the agencies.
- April 3, 2008 - Received Our FBI Clearances.
- March 31, 2008 - Received WPA package with our first apostilled documents... ooooh fancy.
- March 29, 2008 - Homestudy Complete!
- March 26th, 2008 - Contract Received! We're officially signed on with WPA
- March 25, 2008 - Mortgage Letter In
- March 24, 2008 - Bank Reference Letters In
- March 21, 2008 - Medical Evaluations Done
- March 20, 2008 - All references sent to WPA. A Big THANK YOU to all our Wonderful Friends!
- March 19, 2008 - Sent Fingerprint to the FBI
- March 8, 2008 - Filed our I-600A
- March 7, 2008 - Application Sent to World Partners Adoption
- February 25, 2008 - First Homestudy Interview
- February 17, 2008 - Signed with Adoption Connection for our Homestudy
- January 9, 2008 - Phone Interview with WPA
5 comments:
How exciting!! I'm looking forward to following your amazing journey. We arrived home from Kaz with our two beautiful children in August 2005 and are currently in the process of adding another precious jewel from Kaz to our family.
You have so much to look forward to :) Best wishes for a safe trip.
Allison
donohoefamily.blogspot.com
Congratulations!! You will arrive in Kaz on our Kaz Princess's birthday. Have a wonderful trip. We look forward to following your journey.
The Ryans
Have a wonderful trip. Just thinking of someone going to Kaz makes me a little Kaz-sick and it's been five years!
www.vietkaz.wordpress.com
Thanks for sharing your blog. We brought our daughter Alia home from Kokshetau on 10/30/08. I look forward to following along.
Safe travels!
Angela
Rebecca - yeah!! It's an awesome trip. Can't wait to hear you are in country. Safe travels!
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