Quick Turn Around
Our dossier made it to my desktop early this afternoon. I spent my lunch hour photo-copying and re-stapling all the documents. I had to make 2 photocopies of each document and apostille certificate to send back with all the originals. So now they are on their way to the agency who will hopefully keep their word and will get the apostilles translated immediately and get them back to the Kaz Embassy.
A little background...I told you a few days ago our dossier was returned because of the change in how the dossier was to be put together. What I failed to mention was how angry I was about that. I was still too angry to write about it at the time and still have this be read by my mother - LOL!! Anyway, the reason I was so angry is that this change occured in mid-May and our dossier was submitted to them the first week of June (after the change was in effect). I read about this change a couple of weeks later and questioned my agency about it. They had heard nothing about the change. Now, not for nothing, but we are paying these people alot of money to help us through this and I expect my agency to stay on top of regulation changes and to know how to guide us through this journey. I don't feel I should be the one pointing out regulation changes.
Anyway, the reason this made me so angry is that this is exactly what happened while we were getting ready for Russia. I began reading about the pending changes in Russia and would then question the agency about it. I was repeatedly told that nothing was changing and that we would be fine. I was even told that since the child we were pursuing was over 4 he would not be affected by the changes. This of course was contrary to what I was reading on the message boards, but I was naive enough to believe what i was being told. At one point I was scolded about believing what I had read on the internet. Now, I am not a "told you so" type of person, but in the end what I was reading was the truth, and what the agency was telling me was not. We ended up being caught in the middle of all the chagnes and found it wise to cut our losses in Russia and just switch to Kazakhstan.
So now their not keeping up with regulation changes again has cost us almost a month of time. We would probably have traveled sometime in late August / early September but now it is looking more like October before we will get to finally meet our child.
Again I close with....what is meant to be will be....
A little background...I told you a few days ago our dossier was returned because of the change in how the dossier was to be put together. What I failed to mention was how angry I was about that. I was still too angry to write about it at the time and still have this be read by my mother - LOL!! Anyway, the reason I was so angry is that this change occured in mid-May and our dossier was submitted to them the first week of June (after the change was in effect). I read about this change a couple of weeks later and questioned my agency about it. They had heard nothing about the change. Now, not for nothing, but we are paying these people alot of money to help us through this and I expect my agency to stay on top of regulation changes and to know how to guide us through this journey. I don't feel I should be the one pointing out regulation changes.
Anyway, the reason this made me so angry is that this is exactly what happened while we were getting ready for Russia. I began reading about the pending changes in Russia and would then question the agency about it. I was repeatedly told that nothing was changing and that we would be fine. I was even told that since the child we were pursuing was over 4 he would not be affected by the changes. This of course was contrary to what I was reading on the message boards, but I was naive enough to believe what i was being told. At one point I was scolded about believing what I had read on the internet. Now, I am not a "told you so" type of person, but in the end what I was reading was the truth, and what the agency was telling me was not. We ended up being caught in the middle of all the chagnes and found it wise to cut our losses in Russia and just switch to Kazakhstan.
So now their not keeping up with regulation changes again has cost us almost a month of time. We would probably have traveled sometime in late August / early September but now it is looking more like October before we will get to finally meet our child.
Again I close with....what is meant to be will be....
posted by Kim @ 6:40 PM
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