Dear Ecuadorian Government,
I hate you. I hate you, I hate you, I hate you. I cannot stand you. You make me angry. You make me furious and frustrated.
I got fingerprinted. I got a "certificate of good conduct." I had my check-up. I proved to you I don't have HIV. I proved I have financial standing to be here, the support of my parents and school, that I am enrolled in an official university. I got my Visa.
Then I come here and have to "register" my Visa. WHY? Then I need a "Certificado de Visacion," which I apparently got with my Visa, that I don't remember ever having seen in my life. Now I have to go to a lawyer, pay $20 to get this damn thing, lave my passport there for days, bring the certicado, billions of copies of every page of my passport and more money to some other office god knows where to have my Visa "registered," then bring more money and more stupid pages of information to get a goddamn Ecuadorian ID that I have to have. And hope all of this can get done in the next week and a half so I'm not, you know, kicked out of the country.
For four months.
I am sooo angry. I'm sorry, this is not PC, but what kind of threat am I? I am pumping money into this economy and am a good student at the university I'm attending. I'm not doing any drugs. I even speak a little Spanish. Why is this process such a goddamn big deal and such a pain in the ass?
I'm just pissed all my money is going down the goddamn drain when I already got my stupid Visa. Ugh. Motherfuckers.
Sorry about the cursing.
No I'm not.
i'm shitty at this
14 years ago
3 comments:
wow, that sucks. good luck.
Hey, I'm sorry about all that visa mess. I hope it works out!
We should Skype sometime - I'm JBennett88.
I know how you feel. I just got my I.D. this very week and had to spend hundreds of dollars to do so - not to mention the time wasted; the negligence on the part of the attorneys who were helping me and the overall nonsense of it all. Thankfully, my wife (a native Ecuadorian) did most of the hard work for me, which is mostly in trying to communicate with people in these offices who tend to not care about a persons individual needs as their system for issuing and receiving identification...well...sucks. You'll get through it though - just keep trying.
Just posted this morning: http://www.jedwhiteillustration.com/blog/?p=161
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