The CO$T of CITIZENSHIP
House on Red Corner · 2005-05-29
So I looked in my briefcase and it was gone. Ok, more information is needed so that everyone is not lost, I’m sure. I have a leather briefcase, it has been in my possesion for a number of years. I don’t use it to transport stuff back and forth from home to the office. No, I just leave it in a safe place and keep my important stuff in it. It has my copy of my military record, some photographs of various groups that I am proud to have been involved with, and some medals I won in competitions. It also contained my birth certificate. Or so I thought.
For years, the briefcase was in a storage unit, that i hardly ever visited. Before that, it was in the corner of several raw spaces in the “Artsy”/Industrial sections of the city that I was calling home. I saw my birth certificate two years ago, and I thought that I had put it in my briefcase. Well, It wasn’t there. I’ve had to order a new one to be sent to me by courier.
The website which I visited was very helpful and quite thorough. During the process, at the end of the process, there was a quiz. Yep, a quiz and it was all about me. At least it was multiple choice because some of the answers were quite hard. Like which of these addresses did you not live at in your life, and my county of birth was difficult too. Fortunately for me, that was on the open book portion of the test.
Well, anyways after passing the quiz and paying a reissue fee and the delivery cost, I should be getting a new Birth Certificate in the next week. This means I’ll be able to return to the country from Canada. No, I am not dodging the draft, although that promises to be a topic I’ll discuss in a later posting. I’ll also be able to get that New York State Driver’s License that I was denied a couple weeks ago.
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