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From the US Department of State: Kazakhstan Adoption Alert U.S. DEPARTMENT OF STATE Bureau of Consular Affairs Office of Children’s Issues _______________________________________________________________________________________________________ January 13, 2011 According to the Government of Kazakhstan’s Ministry of Education (MoE), all pending adoption dossiers that were not matched with children by December 15, 2010, will be returned and will have [...]
From the U.S. Department of State: Adoption Alert U.S. DEPARTMENT OF STATE Bureau of Consular Affairs Office of Children’s Issues _______________________________________________________________________________________________________ November 24, 2010 According to the Government of Kazakhstan, the Ministry of Education plans to match all families with pending adoption dossiers with children before December 15, 2010. Once these matches are made, the [...]
From the U.S. Department of State: Kazakhstan Adoption Alert U.S. DEPARTMENT OF STATE Bureau of Consular Affairs Office of Children’s Issues _______________________________________________________________________________________________________ November 1, 2010 The Government of Kazakhstan has reinstated the expedited passport service for adopted children. Adoptive parents or their service provider can now pay a fee for approximately $14 to expedite passport [...]
From the U.S. Department of State: Kazakhstan will become a party to the Hague Convention on Protection of Children and Co-operation in Respect of Intercountry Adoption (Convention) on November 1, 2010. Government of Kazakhstan stated it will not accept any new intercountry adoption dossiers until it completes adoption reforms, which is expected to be March [...]
From the U.S. Department of State: Adoption Alert U.S. DEPARTMENT OF STATE Bureau of Consular Affairs Office of Children’s Issues _______________________________________________________________________________________________________ September 9, 2010 A new Kazakh passport requirement has created a processing delay for all passports of about three months. This delay directly affects inter-country adoptions since adoptive children must acquire a passport before [...]