finally the LOI(Letter of Invitation) is here! We have no idea what it says since it is all in Russian, but as long as the Kazakhstan embassy in DC knows, then were are cool. From what we gather, there is a paragraph that probably says we are cleared to come on over to adopt and then the rest is just our personal information that is listed on our passports. That is why we had to get them emergency renewed. They didn't like Guy's passport expiring in March 08 and we also discovered that mine said that I was a male?! So when you pay enough money to licensed private passport agencies, they work with the government and get them processed within 24 hours. So we had that done, scanned them and emailed the scan to our agency who forwarded the scan to Kazakhstan on Wednesday the 15th(thursday their time.)The LOI arrived on Friday, August 23rd. It was supposed to come thursday, but apparently the fax/scan machine was not working in Kazakhstan so it was delayed another day. After starting paperwork at the end of January, it will be the first of Sept until we travel. We will leave Monday sept 3rd at 1 in the afternoon from the Salt Lake City Airport and arrive in Petropavlovsk,Kazakhstan wednesday morning(tuesday night 10:30pm our time.) There will be 5 different planes and 4 layovers(including 6:30 hours in Vienna.) Quite a long travel plan, but what do you do when you are literally traveling half way around the world? The only thing we have left to worry about are the visas. Supposedly, they will surely be here by Saturday, but crazy things happen, so cross your fingers!
