This morning we had the pleasure of making our little girl a US citizen on top of her German citizenship. It wasn’t nearly as pleasant of an experience as dealing with the German offices.
The new American Embassy is on what looks like an old Army base and has the inviting charme of a Supermax prison. After a we got good and searched, including taking the battery out of mobile phones and leaving them with the security desk. Surprisingly enough, the tiny one AAA battery LED flashlight on the Mrs. was also strictly verboten and had to stay behind.
The service was quite frankly appalling – polite, but with all the nicety of how prisoners are treated. Without wanting to get into this story too much here, I briefly considered handing my greencard to them and picking up the baby and just having her be German only. I managed to keep my cool for the most part, but it is amazing to see how you are not so much a citizen but more of a subject in these good ol’ US of A.
I guess if you followed my blog for a while I am not so fond of any government controlling me so….. it’s not wonder the prison routine of “pick up your ballsack and now spread your ass cheeeks” kind of treatment didn’t make me feel all warm and cozy inside today.
Long story short – I managed not to say something offensive and get myself arrested – although I did have the audacity to turn my mobile phone back on 10 seconds before I reached “German Soil”. Well….fuck ‘em all… passport is obtained and I won’t have to deal with these people for a few more years. Now just a formality visit to our local city hall tomorrow morning and we will have a legal dual citizen baby on our hands.
I think she just blew up her pampers….. so I will cut this short. Time for another solo flight.
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