It's time to Rock the Kaz Blog!!

After months of waiting, it's finally here!!! We've received our Letter of Invitation to travel to Kazakhstan to adopt. We've been on this journey since March of 2005 and it is all about to come full circle. Here are the details of our journey so far:

4/20 - signed with agency
5/1 - started homestudy
5/27 - sent in I-600A
6/24 - fingerprinted
7/9 - received I-171h
7/14 - sent dossier to agency
8/12 - dossier sent to DC (DC stopped accepting 8/12 - 9/8)
9/30 - sent dossier to NY instead
10/28 - new paperwork requirements sent to NY
11/9 - dossier approved at NY
11/15 - dossier in KAZ
1/25/06 - received LOI

Right now we're waiting on visas and expect to leave on Friday, February 17th. We'll travel over 21 hours from San Antonio to Almaty. From there we will be going to Shymkent and hope to share our progress with you each day.