Post Placement Reports

There are conflicting reports about particular regions being closed down because of a fairly new ruling that families who adopt children from Kazakhstan must comply with a post placement report until the child reaches 18 years old. We have already paid in advance for the initial four year reports with our home study agency. This was a required document in our dossier. Because this is a new requirement there are families that have adopted in the recent past that are either not aware of this ruling or do not feel this applies to them.

What is most unfortunate is that there are children waiting to be placed in loving homes and families like ourselves that are anxiously awaiting this opportunity and we are being held up by this process.

This is an e-mail from the Embassy about Karaganda...

"Karaganda region is closed since spring of 2007 due to the missing
post-placement reports about the previously adopted children. The
Embassy is working on contacting the adoptive parents and the
adoption agency to obtain the missing reports. Kazakhstani
authorities promise to open the region only after all the reports are
submitted."

Best regards,
Consular Section
U.S. Embassy Astana, Kazakhstan

I hope that other regions do not close their doors as well, and that Karaganda can accumulate the needed post placements to open the process up again so we can be invited to bring our child home.