Not sure a good or bad agency is making a difference. Things seem to be crawling at a snail's pace in general for many hoping to adopt from Kaz right now. We were supposed to travel in May, then June, then August, and now we are hoping for a miracle to travel by next week so that I have enough time to go to Kaz and get through court, waiting period, and sign the birth certificate before having to return to deploy to Iraq at the end of November. When we first started this process we thought we had loads of time before I had to deploy, and now we've burned through 6 months in the blink of an eye with nothing to show for it.
We were getting awesome communication from our agency when things were going well, of course, and now that its down to the wire when we need an honest assessment of our chances we get absolutely nothing. They never foresaw the wait being this bad, and have told us they've been doing everything they can, but they obviously don't want to have to deliver no news or bad news. At some point its inevitable though. "Kazbound08" is realistically going to become "Kazbound10" or "Kazbound11".