Yea!! congrats! that is good news! What do emergency travel docs consist of? I haven't ever had to use them for myself of clients luckily. however, we did have a rule here at one point that if you could prove you applied for a pasport, then you were ok to travel even if you hadn't received it yet.
Reply to this Thanks Maya 😊
They said the emergency doccuments would look like a regular passport but with fewer visa pages and would not be valid for as long as the real ones. I think consulates of many countries can issue them to allow their citizens to get home if they lose their passport.
I dont want to rely on a country like Kyrgystan letting me in or out without the passport to show. One never knows what will not be acceptable with the authorities in some countries.
Reply to this Wow i don't know if we do that in the US, but sounds like something we should institute. I agree with you on Kyrgystan though. Plus you never know how they could change the rules before you go, while you're there etc. That happened to a bunch of people in the US going to the Caribbean when our rules changed. The airlines let them leave the US without a passport, not paying attention to the return date enough to realize that their return date was after the new rule was instituted and they'd need a passport to get back. A lot of people actually got stranded!
Reply to this Much as I want to visit Kyrgyzstan, I would hate to not be able to leave. :D
Reply to this The consulate said my passport is arriving there on Friday and they will then send it to me.
Can I stop fretting now?? Or maybe if I continue to use my energy in restless worrying it will speed things up! :D
Reply to this This looks like the day of good news. I think we can now get the papers we need for getting married in Denmark. 😊
Denmark here we come, I think. I had better not get too happy yet, because we dont have the passport or the birthcert in our hands yet. If we get my boyfriends birthcert, then maybe we will be getting married this Winter. 😊 And then there will probably be more papers to fill in in Germany about taxes. Yuck! I have a real phobia about paperwork. I am usually either wallowing in apathy about it or twitching with frustration. :D Maybe with practice I can become one of those patient people who accept that it is part of life and patiently get on with whatever needs to be done.
Now, on to the next piece of burocratic BS in my life. Maybe the good passport and marriage papers news will give me the energy to look at the credit card cock up that was made when we all got Euros here instead of our former currencies. I ended up having to pay a credit card bill twice. Well, to make it short I still have not got back the money which I have been chasing after on and off for years. Ugh! Not sure I have the energy for this afterall, but I sure dont like the idea of letting them get away with it. It was a big amount of money too because we moved house at the time and payed all our moving expenses with the credit card.
Reply to this Hey congrats on the passport and papers for getting married!! That's great news! I agree with you about paperwork, I get so bogged down in it or I just put it aside until later, neither of which is the best option. I had to do all of that when I got divorced to change my name and I still have some stuff to do because I could only do so much at a time and have to take breaks. So some things have my former married name and most have my maiden name (pretty much the most important stuff has been changed back). I think we have it much easier over here though, it sounds like Ireland, Germany and Denmark are being very strict with the paperwork and buerocratic red tape! But at least it's moving along finally!!
Reply to this Germany is the worst of the Eurupean countries for paperwork. Everything you do here involves lots of it. And they are so serious about it all being done exactly right.
My boyfriend just reminded me that we cant buy the tickets to Denmark just yet. I have to get a residency permit for Germany. I am supposed to have one already and did have one for a while. But it was taking up a lot of my boyfriends time to keep renewing it and a couple of other inconveniences.... In order to get it I have to buy some medical insurance for a month. I basically have to be officially resident in Germany for a month before we are allowed to get married. So cross your fingers that they just give me the residency permit and dont ask where I have been resident for the last 4 years since the last one expired.
Since you have to do all that name changing anyway, you could choose a really exotic fancy name to change to. You might as well get something new and exciting out of it. :D
Reply to this Wow it sounds like they are very strict over there - not that this is bad in general, but I'm sure it's a pain in the butt! I will keep my fingers crossed for your residency permit! You know, you really should think about writing a book! You have been to so many unique places and gone through so many processes, paperwork and regulations!
I would love to change my name to something fun lol! I always said I wanted to marry someone with an Italian/Sicilian last name because I am half Sicilian and I have had a very non-ethnic sounding name (Northen) my whole life! Or maybe I should change it to something sounding like it's Asian, since everyone asks me if I'm Chinese - that would really throw them off when I tell them I'm actually Sicilian!
Reply to this ...not that this is bad in general...
It isnt exactly good either. For sure laws that protect people are important but when there are way more than there needs to be then they actually put some people at risk because it prevents them from availing of this or that service.
For example, if I become pregnant again before we get married I would have very big problems here in Germany. Whatever we do it would cost us more money that we can comfortably afford and maybe would even deprive me of the choice of keeping the baby. And that is just one example.
You probably dont need to get married to change to an Italian name. Well, that depends on the US laws. In some countries people are not allowed to change their names without a reason. Women changing their names after marriage is accepted/tolerated because of laws of habit in most/all Western countries so is considered a reason. That reminds me of another piece of BS in Germany. They have a list of official first names that you are allowed to call your child and it is illegal to give them any other name. Expats and immigrants get around this by giving their child the middle name they want and then just calling them by the middle name.
Reply to this You know, you really should think about writing a book!
If I was the only one going to these places and doing these things I would certainly consider that. But there is so much competition that one would have to be incredibly lucky to be recognised at all. Almost 400 blogs get uploaded onto this site alone everyday and many of those people have been to amazing places too.
Reply to this My passport has now arrived at the consulate in Berlin. Thank goodness! 😊 They are mailing it to me on Monday, so I should have it next Tuesday or Wednesday. 😊
Reply to this I leave on 5th September. So I got the passport in plenty of time. 😊
At least some good things are emerging from the paperwork gloom heap. :D When everything takes so long I start to get paranoid that the various authorities are doing these things on purpose so they can keep peoples money, have an excuse to charge them more..... My boyfriend says that is not true. He says they are just too stupid to get things done quickly. :D
Reply to this So glad to hear you are all set! And i think, perhaps it's a combination or yours and your boyfriends' theories - there are definitely people that of have their "heads up their rear-ends" (pg 13 forum!) but I also think that there may be some truth to wanting to get people's money, etc. I mean in the US when we had all the issue with delayed passports, so many people paid extra to get their's rushed so that they didn't have to sweat it out until the last minute. I and as with anything else, sadly, if people know we'll pay extra for something, they may be taking advantage of that.
At least it's all sorted out. I bet you are so excited!
Reply to this My passport arrived in the mail, this morning. 😊 I have been reading more stuff about Kyrgyzstan now that I know I am going for sure and gettting excited and nervous at the same time.
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