Wish me luck dear CPians
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After finding out it's mumfs and loadsawonga to get a British Passport, I'm going down to the municipality to /try and/ get Hungarian Passports for the girls. The procedure is simple. I have to be there BEFORE 12:30 and queue. This queue is to get a ticket to tell you your queue number; if you arrive after about 12:00 then you're looking at a 4 hour wait. Once I get a queue number I can work out, +/- half an hour, when I'll be seen. Then I can call Mrs Wife with the estimated time so she can go and get the girls from school. With luck, we'll be seen some time around two and if the clerk is in a good mood then photos will be taken and applications signed. Both parents have to be present to apply for a child's passport. That process can take 20-30 minutes. We can then choose how much to pay. :-D Normal is around £30 and takes 6-8 weeks. Express is ~£60 and guarantees 3 weeks,. Or big bribe is £120 and gets it while you wait. Stupid waste of all of our time.
Panic, Chaos, Destruction. My work here is done. Drink. Get drunk. Fall over - P O'H OK, I will win to day or my name isn't Ethel Crudacre! - DD Ethel Crudacre I cannot live by bread alone. Bacon and ketchup are needed as well. - Trollslayer Have a bit more patience with newbies. Of course some of them act dumb - they're often *students*, for heaven's sake - Terry Pratchett
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After finding out it's mumfs and loadsawonga to get a British Passport, I'm going down to the municipality to /try and/ get Hungarian Passports for the girls. The procedure is simple. I have to be there BEFORE 12:30 and queue. This queue is to get a ticket to tell you your queue number; if you arrive after about 12:00 then you're looking at a 4 hour wait. Once I get a queue number I can work out, +/- half an hour, when I'll be seen. Then I can call Mrs Wife with the estimated time so she can go and get the girls from school. With luck, we'll be seen some time around two and if the clerk is in a good mood then photos will be taken and applications signed. Both parents have to be present to apply for a child's passport. That process can take 20-30 minutes. We can then choose how much to pay. :-D Normal is around £30 and takes 6-8 weeks. Express is ~£60 and guarantees 3 weeks,. Or big bribe is £120 and gets it while you wait. Stupid waste of all of our time.
Panic, Chaos, Destruction. My work here is done. Drink. Get drunk. Fall over - P O'H OK, I will win to day or my name isn't Ethel Crudacre! - DD Ethel Crudacre I cannot live by bread alone. Bacon and ketchup are needed as well. - Trollslayer Have a bit more patience with newbies. Of course some of them act dumb - they're often *students*, for heaven's sake - Terry Pratchett
That's not a bad system - at least there is a way to find out how long it is going to take. And the "both parents present" bit sounds like a good idea to me. It would be too easy for one parent of a divorced / divorcing couple to get a passport for the kids and zoom them off to foreign climes otherwise.
Ideological Purity is no substitute for being able to stick your thumb down a pipe to stop the water
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After finding out it's mumfs and loadsawonga to get a British Passport, I'm going down to the municipality to /try and/ get Hungarian Passports for the girls. The procedure is simple. I have to be there BEFORE 12:30 and queue. This queue is to get a ticket to tell you your queue number; if you arrive after about 12:00 then you're looking at a 4 hour wait. Once I get a queue number I can work out, +/- half an hour, when I'll be seen. Then I can call Mrs Wife with the estimated time so she can go and get the girls from school. With luck, we'll be seen some time around two and if the clerk is in a good mood then photos will be taken and applications signed. Both parents have to be present to apply for a child's passport. That process can take 20-30 minutes. We can then choose how much to pay. :-D Normal is around £30 and takes 6-8 weeks. Express is ~£60 and guarantees 3 weeks,. Or big bribe is £120 and gets it while you wait. Stupid waste of all of our time.
Panic, Chaos, Destruction. My work here is done. Drink. Get drunk. Fall over - P O'H OK, I will win to day or my name isn't Ethel Crudacre! - DD Ethel Crudacre I cannot live by bread alone. Bacon and ketchup are needed as well. - Trollslayer Have a bit more patience with newbies. Of course some of them act dumb - they're often *students*, for heaven's sake - Terry Pratchett
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After finding out it's mumfs and loadsawonga to get a British Passport, I'm going down to the municipality to /try and/ get Hungarian Passports for the girls. The procedure is simple. I have to be there BEFORE 12:30 and queue. This queue is to get a ticket to tell you your queue number; if you arrive after about 12:00 then you're looking at a 4 hour wait. Once I get a queue number I can work out, +/- half an hour, when I'll be seen. Then I can call Mrs Wife with the estimated time so she can go and get the girls from school. With luck, we'll be seen some time around two and if the clerk is in a good mood then photos will be taken and applications signed. Both parents have to be present to apply for a child's passport. That process can take 20-30 minutes. We can then choose how much to pay. :-D Normal is around £30 and takes 6-8 weeks. Express is ~£60 and guarantees 3 weeks,. Or big bribe is £120 and gets it while you wait. Stupid waste of all of our time.
Panic, Chaos, Destruction. My work here is done. Drink. Get drunk. Fall over - P O'H OK, I will win to day or my name isn't Ethel Crudacre! - DD Ethel Crudacre I cannot live by bread alone. Bacon and ketchup are needed as well. - Trollslayer Have a bit more patience with newbies. Of course some of them act dumb - they're often *students*, for heaven's sake - Terry Pratchett
Best of luck. Remember, if governments are the only authority who sanction and authorise documents you will be charged for it. It involves no more effort to do it there and then for £120 than it does for £30. They know it, you know it but you can only particpate in their service. I had my SA passport stolen many years ago. I also had a UK passport. I made enquiries at the SA consulate in London. It was recommended I joined the queue before it opened. I did. After a few hours twiddling thumbs in the central area I got to see a so-called advisor. He inspected my application and then grilled me about my passport. It required a police clearance check from Johannesburg. Fine, go ahead. That'll be £80 he demanded. £80 for an online lookup that he could have done there and then for nothing? I told him no thanks. I'm sure I can get by without the passport. Not for the first time has SA made it an unpleasant experience to get one. I hope yours pans out better. Take sweets. I recall reading about a family trying to cross a border into Isreal back in the 70s. The Israeli border guards held them in a sort of stand-off for much of the day. In sweltering heat a guard went to go outside. As he did, one of the children did something that only children could do in the grand game of politics; she offered him a sweet. They were through the border minutes later. Sweeties might save you £120. :)
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After finding out it's mumfs and loadsawonga to get a British Passport, I'm going down to the municipality to /try and/ get Hungarian Passports for the girls. The procedure is simple. I have to be there BEFORE 12:30 and queue. This queue is to get a ticket to tell you your queue number; if you arrive after about 12:00 then you're looking at a 4 hour wait. Once I get a queue number I can work out, +/- half an hour, when I'll be seen. Then I can call Mrs Wife with the estimated time so she can go and get the girls from school. With luck, we'll be seen some time around two and if the clerk is in a good mood then photos will be taken and applications signed. Both parents have to be present to apply for a child's passport. That process can take 20-30 minutes. We can then choose how much to pay. :-D Normal is around £30 and takes 6-8 weeks. Express is ~£60 and guarantees 3 weeks,. Or big bribe is £120 and gets it while you wait. Stupid waste of all of our time.
Panic, Chaos, Destruction. My work here is done. Drink. Get drunk. Fall over - P O'H OK, I will win to day or my name isn't Ethel Crudacre! - DD Ethel Crudacre I cannot live by bread alone. Bacon and ketchup are needed as well. - Trollslayer Have a bit more patience with newbies. Of course some of them act dumb - they're often *students*, for heaven's sake - Terry Pratchett
Nagy Vilmos wrote:
mumfs and loadsawonga
What are those? They sounds more valuable than passport! :)
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That's not a bad system - at least there is a way to find out how long it is going to take. And the "both parents present" bit sounds like a good idea to me. It would be too easy for one parent of a divorced / divorcing couple to get a passport for the kids and zoom them off to foreign climes otherwise.
Ideological Purity is no substitute for being able to stick your thumb down a pipe to stop the water
Not quite. In my country (and probably in the rest of EU) the border/airport police tends to suddenly develop extremely high levels of curiosity when they see a kid with a single parent. They request a special document, notary legalized and signed from the other parent that you can leave the country with the kid on exactly this date. Otherwise you have a very good chance to get your ass arrested on the spot.
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