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Aug. 12th, 2009 12:33 pmThere's always something, isn't there?
I have not travelled, and despite repeated mentions to my mother that I need to get this sorted and her offer to help by paying for it, she's consistently blanked it and I haven't had the time to press her on it or the money and documents required to do it myself. So upshot is that my passport is woefully out of date. However, it has my Indefinite Leave to Remain stamp in it (which apparently can't be transferred without a significant outlay of money due to stronger regulations) and up until recently, no one has had a problem accepting it as ID when I have, for example, been applying for jobs. Hell, I even got my National Insurance number on the strength of that passport, and that was only three months ago.
Thing is, the agency that found me shiny new job is being really really strict about it. I apparently have to show them a valid passport or at least a letter saying that my application for one is in progress. If I can't provide this, I dread to think. So I've had to really get onto my mother about it, and she's finally promised to dig out the documents I need. Hey, she's the one with my birth certificate, and I swear if she only has a copy I'm going to scream, because that'll mean I have to apply for a replacement before I can get a passport and that'll take more time. The only reason that we're having to do this at all is that they don't accept baptism certificates as ID for passport renewal anymore, you know. Yet more people being way picky about documentation, though that one at least I can understand.
Anyway, if push comes to absolute shove, I will show my birth certificate (copy or not), my old passport, my Indefinite Leave to Remain letter, my National Insurance card and any other personal ID I can find to someone at the consulate and have them write a letter saying that I have all these things, they all mean I have every right to be and live and work here, and that my passport application is in progress. There's bound to be contingencies for this sort of thing. Seriously, I am not having this. I am not losing a job I want before I even start it because someone's being anal about paperwork. There is always a way to get these things done and I will get it done if I have to sweat blood.
...And now, since I've set everything in motion and there's nothing further I can realistically do to improve the situation before tomorrow, I will settle down, relax and watch a DVD. I will enjoy my leisure time while I can, I suppose, because come hell or high water, I will get things sorted before my projected start time of 9:30am Monday. I once got a replacement passport in three days; just prying a letter out of people should be easier.
I have not travelled, and despite repeated mentions to my mother that I need to get this sorted and her offer to help by paying for it, she's consistently blanked it and I haven't had the time to press her on it or the money and documents required to do it myself. So upshot is that my passport is woefully out of date. However, it has my Indefinite Leave to Remain stamp in it (which apparently can't be transferred without a significant outlay of money due to stronger regulations) and up until recently, no one has had a problem accepting it as ID when I have, for example, been applying for jobs. Hell, I even got my National Insurance number on the strength of that passport, and that was only three months ago.
Thing is, the agency that found me shiny new job is being really really strict about it. I apparently have to show them a valid passport or at least a letter saying that my application for one is in progress. If I can't provide this, I dread to think. So I've had to really get onto my mother about it, and she's finally promised to dig out the documents I need. Hey, she's the one with my birth certificate, and I swear if she only has a copy I'm going to scream, because that'll mean I have to apply for a replacement before I can get a passport and that'll take more time. The only reason that we're having to do this at all is that they don't accept baptism certificates as ID for passport renewal anymore, you know. Yet more people being way picky about documentation, though that one at least I can understand.
Anyway, if push comes to absolute shove, I will show my birth certificate (copy or not), my old passport, my Indefinite Leave to Remain letter, my National Insurance card and any other personal ID I can find to someone at the consulate and have them write a letter saying that I have all these things, they all mean I have every right to be and live and work here, and that my passport application is in progress. There's bound to be contingencies for this sort of thing. Seriously, I am not having this. I am not losing a job I want before I even start it because someone's being anal about paperwork. There is always a way to get these things done and I will get it done if I have to sweat blood.
...And now, since I've set everything in motion and there's nothing further I can realistically do to improve the situation before tomorrow, I will settle down, relax and watch a DVD. I will enjoy my leisure time while I can, I suppose, because come hell or high water, I will get things sorted before my projected start time of 9:30am Monday. I once got a replacement passport in three days; just prying a letter out of people should be easier.