Traveling Papers - The Saga Continues

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Today, Tuesday, we went back to the Shaibau Police headquarters to turn in the color copies of our passports, proof of Ilaben's residence and letters stating what we did while in India. Oops, after waiting to meet with the assistant commissioner we learned that both of us required copies of the same ducuments, i.e. Ilaben's gas bill, her passport, etc. so off we went to a shop to make copies.

to waWe returned to the Police Headquarters for the fourth time armed with fresh Xerox copies of everything. Each of now had 21 pages of documents, seven passport sized photos and our passports. "Finally we've got everything." Wrong! the beauraucrat now handed us another form and imformed us that we must return with the new form on Wednesday and wait to be interviewed. We learned that there were twenty-four applicants ahead of us for the interviews, so in his words, "Be prepared it at least two hours." In India-speak that means at least four or five hours. Thank goodness we didn't reenter India from Pakistan!

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Documents for the Police Commissioner
Marie & I have each submitted: copies of Ilaben's passport, her latest gas bill, and letter stating why we visited her. We also had color copies of all pages of our own passport, 5 hand written pages of the application form, our own letter stating what we did in India, and 7 passport sized photos