WOOOHOOO!

Submitted by danielle on May 16, 2008 - 4:10pm.

Miriam is finally officially a US citizen!!  Well, she has been one technically since Dec 2005 when we re-adopted her here in the US, but the US Government requires that you fill all kinds of crazy paperwork and pay them hundreds of dollars in order to be able to prove that!  I sent off all the paperwork last May...  It just took them all of a year, but today we finally got her Certificate of Citizenship!!  Yea!  All the paperwork for Miriam is FINALLY done.

Now I just have to reapply for Evan's to get his name changed.  I've been holding off due to the cost.  Seriously, WHY should a name change cost over $500.  There is NO way they incur that much cost changing that certificate.  Just another way our lovely government rips off immigrants.  

And if you are born out of

Submitted by alf (not verified) on June 5, 2008 - 6:14pm.

And if you are born out of country of a US parent, it still costs lots to get those papers. Don't even get me started on immigration laws!