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The waiting game
Jun. 18th, 2008 01:51 pmOne thing remains to be settled regarding dual citizenship: mandatory military service. For the past eleven years, I've been a US resident as well as a US citizen; the only problem was proving it, due to spotty employment records and the like.
Compounding the problem was a Greek army representative who was giving a lot of static over what would constitute proof; passport entry and exit stamps apparently wouldn't do it, not by a long shot.
My family in the US is helping out on this; a visit to the Greek consulate in New York is scheduled for today at noon, New York time, which is 7pm in Athens. With luck, the documents I scanned and emailed over will be sufficient.
If not, then I've got to go back to New York to deal with things. (I have a return ticket for the 26th in any case, because of the limitations of the visa I was issued, which limitations are no longer operative due to my provable citizenship.)
So tonight I'll be able to make plans beyond next week.
Compounding the problem was a Greek army representative who was giving a lot of static over what would constitute proof; passport entry and exit stamps apparently wouldn't do it, not by a long shot.
My family in the US is helping out on this; a visit to the Greek consulate in New York is scheduled for today at noon, New York time, which is 7pm in Athens. With luck, the documents I scanned and emailed over will be sufficient.
If not, then I've got to go back to New York to deal with things. (I have a return ticket for the 26th in any case, because of the limitations of the visa I was issued, which limitations are no longer operative due to my provable citizenship.)
So tonight I'll be able to make plans beyond next week.
