Our passports expire before long and we needed new resident visas - so we updated our passports through the embassy. That went well, except the pictures look alot older than 10 years ago! However, these are the new 'electronic' passports. We had to turn them in to Immigration here with our old passports that have all our visa stamps, and they processed it in a timely fashion, no problems - except when we picked them up, they had stapled our old passports and the paperwork to our passports. Well, there are huge warnings on the new passport, DO NOT STAPLE to the covers of the passport or you will render the electronic part inoperable. I guess there are computer chips or whatever in there. Well, we can be covert now, because ours is chocked full of staple holes I'm sure rendering this newfangled electronics inoperable. We looked on line and this is a common problem for those of us living in developing countries. So much for being state of the art.....kind of like our Internet that is the speed of a turtle looking over his shoulder (don't send me large attachments!)
But, you don't understand the process....the process is to staple........the process, the process is to staple.......staple the process, process the staple, stacess the prable........
So, maybe they will let us back in the states when we show up.....But we do have our resident visa stamps so we can at least stay here for another year!
Blessings!
Dave & Ann
"By faith he dwelt in the land of promise as in a foreign country,....." Hebrews 11:9
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