The Attention Deficit Disorder Thread

I'm carefully tiptoeing around a possible childhood trauma.

 

IT WASN'T A FUCKING TRAUMA OKAY???? OKAY????? EVERYTHING IS FINE!

 

I am not so sure, else why the tantrum?

 

:-|

 

Did I interrupt, Jack

 

No, why would you have?

 

Your smiley seemed bewildered

 

:-|

 

Good morning.

 

Why the frown clown?

 

My sister is stuck in Brasil

So my sister went to Brasil a few weeks back, and before departing she finds out her passport had expired, her husband was left in charge of renewing the passports of her and her daughters, but because in Brasil we get the day first before the months, unlike in US, he misread the expiration date and didn't renew it. My sister thought she would just have to renew it over there, and since she had a week and a half to be there, and the passport takes a week, she went for it, plus she didn't have much time to think about, her fly was leaving in about an hour.

She gets there, and they denied her the passport, their reason was her name didn't match, since she married and took her husband's name. She then had to postponed her fly, because she needed to get extra documents to prove she was the same person. (I guess fingerprints serve no purpose)

So her husband send a copy of their marriage certificate, and send to her, they told her they needed the original. So my brother in law finds the original and sends to my sister to get there the next day, but it takes way more that that to get there, it finally got there last yesterday, so she went to file for her passport today, and guess what? They denied her again.

My brother in law just called explaining the situation, and saying he talked to the place where you get a marriage certificate, and the person told him to print a file, that is in Portuguese, send to them so they can make another original, and then send the new papers to my sister. So he going to need my help, and hopefully those papers will be accepted.

I'm under the impression she is stateless right now in her own country.

She being crying for day one wanting to come home. She is in this small town far from everyone because the city she is in makes passports faster. She have two kids with her, one that just turned 1.

I'm really sad right now

 

My god that fucking sucks!
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I HATE BUREAUCRACY! :soapbox:

 

I know, she always renewed her passport over in US in the Brazilian consulate with not a single problem, I don't see why being there is different.

Plus like I say what good for is the fingerprints, it sounds like a good way to prove one is who they are.

I guess not only do they need a marriage certificate from US, but they want a Portuguese written one, they could at list have told her from start, amazing how those government workers are.

The worst part out of this is that she is with her kids over there. Her husband company got sold 1 day after she flew, so he had to cancel his fly. He might have to go there in a weekend and get the kids back, was what he told me this weekend.

I guess those people wouldn't care if the kids had to starve there.

She still has all her original documents and her birth certificate, but I guess that is not enough for them.

 

She should go to a US consulate for help.

 

She has a visa, but not a citizenship yet, reason more bureaucracy. Long story short, she pay attorney to get citizenship papers, spend 1000s of dollars, got denied by false information, which was she had several DUI in US. The thing is, the DUIs are dated when she was 12 to 14 years of age, she not only did not have a driven license by that age (as is impossible to get), but she didn't even dream of ever setting foot in US by that age. So she has to re apply to citizenship again, and try to clear their mistakes up, meaning more money for attorneys. Since she can live here for as long as she want, as she is married and with children, she just gave up on it. So the US consulate wouldn't be much of a help here.

 

Sorry Arrow, that really sucks. I hope things get sorted for her soon.

 

Me too. Something that was suppose to be a vocation transformed into a major problem, which she has to pay financially and emotionally.

 

Cost of living also have ramped in Brasil, probably because of of their upcoming events and raise on their economy grow. My sister said everything there is way more expensive then here now. Hotel room is about the same as here.

She brought a playpen for the baby to sleep, as it cost 100 bux per night for crib there. The playpen cost there is around 400 R$(brazilian money), in US is about 40 US$, so she will sell the playpen there before she comes for 200 R$ and that will be more then enough to buy another brand new one here.