Nothing is perfect....

We thought we were so blessed, our paperwork flew through all the processes and steps (except the I171H). Everything was going so smoothly, perhaps too smoothly. We should have known something was going to happen, just didn't expect such a big thing to happen.

Apparently, Kazakhstan changes at a moments notice. We have our plane tickets. We were all set to fly out next Thursday and boom, they decide they now need FBI National clearance. Not that they don't already have our fingerprints from every other known source in this country. So unless by some miracle we can get fingerprinted tomorrow, send them to the FBI and beg and plead for them to get them back to us by Tuesday and we drive to Austin to get them Apostilled on Wednesday, we are NOT leaving on Thursday! UGH!