Today we received an email from our agency telling us that our dossier will not be going to Kazakhstan before Christmas after all. It will be sent in January 2009 as was planned. We are told to count 10 days from December 18 however that does not count the weekends & the Christmas holidays & the Embassy re-opens January 5, 2009.
The expedited fee was a Bonus the Consul decided to give himself before Christmas out of our pockets. Bottom line is, every one must pay him $600. to get their files sent forward to Kazakhstan otherwise it will remain on some shelf gathering dust with other dossiers from other families that either refuses to give him bribe money or have no money to give. So we are back where we were, our dossier not going to Kazakhstan till January 2009 & $600 poorer. All the 9 families stuck at the Embassy since July (like us) have decided to pay so we will move forward I guess when it pleases the Consul.
With that being said, Merry Christmas to all.
Malory
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