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Jun. 28th, 2023 08:16 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
missizzyMonday I got an email from the passport people with a letter attached, telling me to fill the application out and send it again. They found it "not suitable for processing" because it "must be printed legibly in black ink on white or lightly-colored background paper." I have no memory for what ink I used, but I got a black pen and started very carefully doing it over-except I couldn't finish it, because it demands the book number and issue date of your old passport, which I don't have anymore, since I sent that document in! And they have absolutely nowhere and noone you can contact to ask what to do about that. We've contacted our congressman's office instead. They left us with the impression they can't really do much about it until the end of July. Sending a letter requesting the old passport back might work, but nobody really knows.
If I end up having to run up to their center in New Hampshire or wherever they insist we have the in-person appointment 14 days before our plane is scheduled to take off, I will hold that the trouble we will all have to go to will remain more their fault than mine. It would be avoidable if they were willing to behave at all reasonably about this.
Getting hit by the tip of the next wildfire ash cloud too, although we've been spared the worse of it so far. The air's only classed as code orange right now, which isn't uncommon for the DC area in the summer, but I still swear I smelt ash when I stepped out of the conference center this evening. We're more prepared this time, at least, and neither of us have suffered any real adverse effects yet.
If I end up having to run up to their center in New Hampshire or wherever they insist we have the in-person appointment 14 days before our plane is scheduled to take off, I will hold that the trouble we will all have to go to will remain more their fault than mine. It would be avoidable if they were willing to behave at all reasonably about this.
Getting hit by the tip of the next wildfire ash cloud too, although we've been spared the worse of it so far. The air's only classed as code orange right now, which isn't uncommon for the DC area in the summer, but I still swear I smelt ash when I stepped out of the conference center this evening. We're more prepared this time, at least, and neither of us have suffered any real adverse effects yet.
