Documents sent for Dossier to our agency co-ordinator, the lovely Liana..

Yesterday was a rush rush day with us scrambling to get photocopies, colored ones esp for our pics scanned together on an A4, marriage certs, colored passport copies, getting 3x4cm pics clicked for more forms (for the Kaz consulate registeration) and getting the money order (in USD!). You can get them from the Post Office by the way, which was good to know. All done, we scrambled to reach Purolator before their 7:30pm closing time and made it in the nick of time! Whew!
So, Liana should have everything today, in Toronto.

Most of the translations are complete and the rest will be done by tomorrow (into Russian and Kazakh) so by late Thursday or Friday she should be able to start the next steps. These are:

• Liana needs to have them witnessed and signed
• Have the translations attached to them
• Authentication at Foreign Affairs Canada, and then 
• The Kazakh Consulate in Ottawa. 

She is hoping to bring the dossier herself and take a train to Ottawa to see the person incharge of Adoptions, at the Kaz Consulate by Friday next week as long as Foreign Affairs can do the authentication quickly. So for now, we wait to see by when FA will return the dossier.

She also mentioned that the wait for a referral, once the dossier is sent to Kaz, might not even be the full 3 month period but shorter since there are so many children on the database up for adoption since there Kaz was closed for adoptions for the last 2 yrs almost. I feel so sad thinking about all those children who lost out on having homes and parents who gave up because of Kaz closing down.