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summercomfort) wrote2009-07-27 12:39 pm
summercomfort) wrote2009-07-27 12:39 pm
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SUCCESS!!!!
I left at 7:15am and got to the Embassy a little before 8. After waiting in line for a while (although it's the short "Citizen Services" line), went in, said I needed Emergency Passport, presented forms, took oath, and then waited for about an hour. At the end of which, voila! My passport is ready! It's a super-patriotic passport, with quotes from JFK and stuff, and each page has an iconic image of America on it -- bald eagle, mount rushmore, statue of liberty, francis scott key gazing upon the star-spangled banner, etc.
So at 10am I arrive at the Visa place. They say it'll take until next Monday (apparently the note that the embassy gives us just says "yo, this new passport is like the old passport"), unless I can show plane ticket, and a note from my workplace proving that it's an emergency.
So I go back to the hostel, and email my mom to ask her to write a work thingie as the principal of Chinese school. Then I told Jono to call my mom to tell her to check her email. Such that by 11am, my mom was able to send me a formal letter. Since the visa office closes for lunch break at noon, I hurry to print the stuff and rush out.
At the visa office, I first talk to a 领导, a superior officer, who tells me to fill out an emergency visa form. Then I get back in line to talk to him again, and he tells me to photocopy everything and take it to a normal visa officer. Then the normal visa officer tells me that my hostel didn't update the online residence database to show that I'm still rooming there. So I call the hostel and they fix that. Then I get back in line and the officer approves everything!!! YAY!!!
So I pick up the Visa on Thursday, and leave Friday. :DDDDDD
I left at 7:15am and got to the Embassy a little before 8. After waiting in line for a while (although it's the short "Citizen Services" line), went in, said I needed Emergency Passport, presented forms, took oath, and then waited for about an hour. At the end of which, voila! My passport is ready! It's a super-patriotic passport, with quotes from JFK and stuff, and each page has an iconic image of America on it -- bald eagle, mount rushmore, statue of liberty, francis scott key gazing upon the star-spangled banner, etc.
So at 10am I arrive at the Visa place. They say it'll take until next Monday (apparently the note that the embassy gives us just says "yo, this new passport is like the old passport"), unless I can show plane ticket, and a note from my workplace proving that it's an emergency.
So I go back to the hostel, and email my mom to ask her to write a work thingie as the principal of Chinese school. Then I told Jono to call my mom to tell her to check her email. Such that by 11am, my mom was able to send me a formal letter. Since the visa office closes for lunch break at noon, I hurry to print the stuff and rush out.
At the visa office, I first talk to a 领导, a superior officer, who tells me to fill out an emergency visa form. Then I get back in line to talk to him again, and he tells me to photocopy everything and take it to a normal visa officer. Then the normal visa officer tells me that my hostel didn't update the online residence database to show that I'm still rooming there. So I call the hostel and they fix that. Then I get back in line and the officer approves everything!!! YAY!!!
So I pick up the Visa on Thursday, and leave Friday. :DDDDDD
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