Time Line...

June 21,2007 – while discussing the wait for China… we said “why wait… why don’t we go to Kazakhstan again!?” Emailed Jim at WPA for some thoughts on this. Jim was out of the country, so Susan Cotten answered.
June 25 – Reply from Susan Cotten, that concurrent adoptions work all the time… We emailed back that we wanted a contract as soon as possible!
June 26 – Contacted Adoption Options about new homestudy. We can count the Post placement meeting in March toward the 2 HS visits. Sent in I600a application requesting approval for twins!!!
July 1 – Received our beautiful white binder with a contract from WPA. Signed our contract with WPA!!!
July 5 – Bank reference letter & Mortgage letter.
July 30 – Fingerprints for FBI approval.
August 27 – Post Placement Agreement
August 29 – Received Police clearance
September 4 – Birth certificates and Marriage Certificate
September 10 – Final medical forms
September 26 – Received Final Homestudy
October 9 – Sent the Homestudy for Kaz to UCIS, as well as the update for our extension on our China 171 approval.
October 13 – Met Susan Cotten and many other families at the WPA reunion in Atlanta. Learned that if you were requesting a boy, that we could send our Homestudy in early for translation.
October 19 – Faxed Homestudy to Temple at the office for early translation.
October 23 – Homestudy Agency License
October 24 – Received notice of our fingerprint appointments for USCIS! Finally!!!!!
October 26 – Employment letters
November 3 – Fingerprints for the USCIS.
November 24 – Received a letter from the USCIS office that they were confused, did we want to transfer approval from China to Kaz or do a separate approval for Kaz… if so I would have to pay… DUH!!! We paid way back in July!!! So annoyed! I even sent the 2 home studies separate with copies of all necessary documents with each one!
December 19 – New General Power of Attorney.
December 21 – Received I171-h!!!!!!!! Passport copies done.
December 26 – General Power of Attorney for both Jerry and I. Commitment letter.
December 27 – New Bank and Mortgage Letters. New Letter of Invitation, inviting ourto-be child to come live with us in the US. Apostilled, (while we were apostilling, we learned that the notary on our employment letter had not dated it, which was required… so we had to drive an hour and a half back to Kalamazoo to have another notary sign a new employment letter for us! Then drive an hour and a half back to the Office of the great seal and all before 4:30pm. It was 1 o’clock when we found out! We were speeding… :) copied and Fed-Exed everything to WPA. Our paperbaby was 4 pounds!
December 28 – Our paperbaby arrived at WPA at 12:29 pm. Happy 10th anniversary to us!!!! It should head off to Kaz yet today!
January 16, 2008 – New Homestudy Agency License to WPA.
January 28 – Dossier through translation and on its way to the Consulate in NY.
February 6-13? – Dossier left Consulate and went back to Kaz to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA)
April 11 – Signed Power of Attorney for the region we will travel to!!!!! Susan was asked about our requests for a baby…
June 4 – Found out we have an LOI already!!!! We do not know the terms yet though. WooHoo!!!! We can’t believe it! That means we may travel very fast when our referral comes!!!!