Bureaucracy
We were just at the embassy today to have some papers legalized, we had to pay $60 bucks for a couple of signatures but aside from that we had to wait for more than half an hour! I hate waiting!
Since it’s a very small office, I couldn’t help but overhear the next visitor’s conversation with the bureaucrat. The couple just had a baby and was scheduled to leave for Indonesia next week. So they wanted to register the baby’s birth get the baby’s passport ASAP.
A couple of problems:
1. All passports are made in The Netherlands and that means you won’t get it within a week. It would take three weeks normally.
2. They have laminated the birth certificate of the child without the stamp from The Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
They won’t bend the rules for him, the guy was already getting frustrated. He admits though that it was a dumb mistake. (Yeah I think so too) They should have read the procedure and requirements first at the embassy website for getting a newborn’s documents. They had 9 months to prepare for that. Well for us, it is lesson learned, we should not laminate the birth certificate till we have gotten him/her her dutch passport.
I think that it would be easier if there were (dutch) native speaking embassy worker in embassies. It just makes it easier for the visitor to tell his story this way.
Sherry on Jun 18, 2009
wow sound complicated to me.
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elmot on Jun 19, 2009
that is the nasty signature trademark of dealing with our kind of government. when officials are so fast to steal cash and put it on their pockets, services are so slow like turtles.
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pehpot on Jun 22, 2009
my hubby has his share of misfortunes when it comes to passport.. pag na compile ko na I will post it hehe
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