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Fri, Mar. 4th, 2005 03:20 pm
OMFG! Does Customs/Immigration/Aussie Post/whoever not WANT Australians to have a bloody passport?
I went in asking if I'm s'posed to get K8 to sign the back of the photo or the box on the form and then stick the photo next to it, and the bloody woman there decided to nitpick EVERYTHING. My photo? Too small. By ONE MILLIMETRE. It says on the freaking form, min 32, max 36: mine is 35. ONE FUCKING MILLIMETRE.
I tried to clarify what the hell I'm s'posed to do with this photo, and she ended up basically saying there was too much space on the sides. So, what, am I supposed to stretch my face out so that it's all distorted, just to fit inside your precious oval? I just know the Department of Foreign Affairs would LOVE to get a doctored photo. Why don't I just airbrush the pimples out as well? In the end she just said "make it bigger". More than a millimetre bigger and it'll be too big, and one millimetre ain't gonna cover the width thing. So I'm still unclear on that one.
But, it gets worse.
Where K8 signed the form? Half of one line is outside the box. Shock bloody horror. So I dunno, it's apparently illegible now, or something. And? She ticked the box instead of crossing it. Oh noes! NOWHERE does it say on the form that you must cross, not tick. Because apparently the Department of Foreign Affairs think that since she ticked the box that said "yes," then she simply must mean "no."
I'm surprised she didn't pick up on te four that could've looked like a seven if you used your imagination really hard.
I bet she was the one who told me I couldn't send TimTams to the US.
Aussie Post website reckons it'll take ten business days to get a passport. My Singapore Airlines points expire on the 31st this month, so I HAVE to buy the ticket before then, otherwise it'll cost me maybe a grand more than I'd hoped. It's currently the 4th, but since it's basically the weekend in an hour and a half, even if I could get it done today, it wouldn't actually leave until Monday, the 7th. Ten business days on from that takes me to the 21st, so there's really not much of a window there for if they take, say, a week longer than expected.
WHY THE BLOODY HELL IS THIS SO FUCKING PICKY? It's not as though K8's signature is going to be on my passport. If it was mine that had missed half a line, then maybe I could understand--I'd either end up with a missing line on my passport or a grey box at the bottom where they had to move the scanner. All she's doing is varifying that I'm me! For fuck's sake! I just want a bloody passport! I'm quite clearly not a terrorist looking to blow up half of London, I have no interest in illegal drugs or anything...
One millimetre, half a line on a signature that isn't even mine, and a tick instead of a cross. That's what's stopping me from getting a passport.
NOT. HAPPY. JAN.
I went in asking if I'm s'posed to get K8 to sign the back of the photo or the box on the form and then stick the photo next to it, and the bloody woman there decided to nitpick EVERYTHING. My photo? Too small. By ONE MILLIMETRE. It says on the freaking form, min 32, max 36: mine is 35. ONE FUCKING MILLIMETRE.
I tried to clarify what the hell I'm s'posed to do with this photo, and she ended up basically saying there was too much space on the sides. So, what, am I supposed to stretch my face out so that it's all distorted, just to fit inside your precious oval? I just know the Department of Foreign Affairs would LOVE to get a doctored photo. Why don't I just airbrush the pimples out as well? In the end she just said "make it bigger". More than a millimetre bigger and it'll be too big, and one millimetre ain't gonna cover the width thing. So I'm still unclear on that one.
But, it gets worse.
Where K8 signed the form? Half of one line is outside the box. Shock bloody horror. So I dunno, it's apparently illegible now, or something. And? She ticked the box instead of crossing it. Oh noes! NOWHERE does it say on the form that you must cross, not tick. Because apparently the Department of Foreign Affairs think that since she ticked the box that said "yes," then she simply must mean "no."
I'm surprised she didn't pick up on te four that could've looked like a seven if you used your imagination really hard.
I bet she was the one who told me I couldn't send TimTams to the US.
Aussie Post website reckons it'll take ten business days to get a passport. My Singapore Airlines points expire on the 31st this month, so I HAVE to buy the ticket before then, otherwise it'll cost me maybe a grand more than I'd hoped. It's currently the 4th, but since it's basically the weekend in an hour and a half, even if I could get it done today, it wouldn't actually leave until Monday, the 7th. Ten business days on from that takes me to the 21st, so there's really not much of a window there for if they take, say, a week longer than expected.
WHY THE BLOODY HELL IS THIS SO FUCKING PICKY? It's not as though K8's signature is going to be on my passport. If it was mine that had missed half a line, then maybe I could understand--I'd either end up with a missing line on my passport or a grey box at the bottom where they had to move the scanner. All she's doing is varifying that I'm me! For fuck's sake! I just want a bloody passport! I'm quite clearly not a terrorist looking to blow up half of London, I have no interest in illegal drugs or anything...
One millimetre, half a line on a signature that isn't even mine, and a tick instead of a cross. That's what's stopping me from getting a passport.
NOT. HAPPY. JAN.
