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Sunday, October 21, 2007

Liliana Laura-Mei: American Citizen

We received Lili's second citizenship certificate Friday. Yes, her second one.
We received the first one in September stating that "Lilian"Laura-Mei is a citizen....blah...blah...blah. LILIAN! So, I had to go through the trouble and expense of getting passport pictures and government forms and returning the first certificate SWEARING that my daughter's name is in fact Liliana and not Lilian!
The way they worded the instructions really killed me. They stated that they got the name from OUR consulate documents and the way they spelled it on this certificate very well may not be the way that we want to spell it, but since WE would've made the mistake on the documents that WE filled out originally, that's basically just too bad. They went on to say that if in fact they did really, truly make an error (even though they didn't word it that way. The government make a MISTAKE?!?!?!) that they would send us a new certificate free of charge AFTER they investigated to MAKE SURE it really was their fault (even though they wouldn't admit it!) If they in fact found it to be an error in OUR spelling this little piece of paper would cost us 380 bucks.
Yeah, people, our daughter's name IS Liliana.
I guess they agree because we didn't get a bill with the new certificate. But an apology would've been nice.
whatever.

1 Comments:

At 4:47 PM , Blogger Musings from Kim K. said...

Whew. Glad you didn't get another bill. How annoying. As if adoption paperwork wasn't painful enough.

PS. Love the new look of your blog! Very girly. I decided to update my blog template last week too. Must be in the air.

 

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