Because the adoption process is very rapid we will stay in contact with you often during your preadoptive period. We also equally committed to providing services, support and education to qualified adoptive parents throughout the entire foreign adoption process, developing into a relationship of long-term guidance and support even after the adoption. Because of the uniqueness of the adoption situation in Kazakhstan, the very young infants come to our program generally healthier because they have not been subjected to lengthy institutionalized living. Some of these infants are in a hospital, from the time they are born until they are 4 months of age and it is imperative that we place them with loving families quickly. The time from referral to travel is very short.
Parents can travel within a few weeks after their dossier is complete.
The culture and food reflect this and most people are bilingual in Kazakh and Russian or another language. The educational and health-care systems, developed under the USSR, follows Soviet model, although some changes were introduced since independence in 1991. Restrictions on religion, for example, have been relaxed. The traditional Kazakh was nomadic and pastoral, but today their way of life and cultural expressions show strong Russian influences. Kazakhstan, a land of nomadic mystical culture is expressed in oral epics, legends, ritual songs, and from the 19th century, in a written literature strongly influenced by Russian traditions.