I've been tackling more paperwork lately. I guess in reality I'm just at the beginning of the end for Samara, so we still have major hoops to do, but feel like I have a plan. For Aidan, I decided to tackle the final 2 steps. One, get a passport. And two, update his social security status now that he has citizenship status. So today we had a passport appointment. No big deal. That is...... until the guy told us he had to send in ORIGINAL documents. He needed the original citizenship paper, and the original adoption decree.
At first my response was........'NO WAY buddy.--Not doing it' I haven't done hours of paperwork and gotten no where with unfriendly government processes, only to have something lost and never returned and no one will EVER help me get back what I need. And if I think it would be a nightmare to get a US document replaced, it would be IMPOSSIBLE to get a Haitian document replaced. So nope---not doing it.
He was pretty cool, he sensed my hesitation. He even called the 1-800 number that processes passports, and sure enough, they won't process it with copies. So I hesitantly handed them over. (Half teasing him 'I knew where he worked'..........)
So instead of feeling like paperwork was off my plate and being processed, I feel like I left something and will anxiously wait til I get the originals back in my hands safely. Hopefully the 4 week processing time will be speedy!!!!
2 comments:
that always makes me nervous, but I have not had a problem getting originals back.... yet.... : )
I too was SO frustrated to be forced to give up the our original citizenship document (after all we have been through, we have learned to be paranoid with every piece of paper!) But we got ours back (and it was even very fast.) I was able to breathe a huge sigh of relief after that point! I hope all goes well with yours too! Congrats on getting to this point - it's almost OVER! :-)
Jill Wilkins
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