Gotta keep those options open
May. 8th, 2008 05:19 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bktheirregularGot a couple of copies of the Greek version of my birth certificate from my cousin's colleagues this afternoon; one is for my records just in case, and the other is for me to deliver to a police registry office to get on record as being a Greek citizen.
I plan to ask point-blank if that gives me the right to stay in Greece.
The manager at the office here asked me what the point was in continuing with the work permit application if my Greek citizenship's coming through? I struggled with the Greek, finally switched to English, and gave my opinion that I'd better keep trying with both tracks until one of them has reached a conclusion.
So tomorrow morning, with luck, the last step in my nearly two-year tangle with the Greek bureaucracy.
(After a detour to Athens International Airport to recover a package sent to me. Somewhere in my travels, one of my two business suits went missing, so I had to get a replacement. It was ordered and delivered to New York, and my folks sent it to me in Athens; unfortunately, it's stuck in Customs, waiting for me to pay a duty fee and a storage fee and a paperwork fee that, collectively, come close to fifty percent of the price of the suit on its own. Seriously. Whiskey tango foxtrot?)
I plan to ask point-blank if that gives me the right to stay in Greece.
The manager at the office here asked me what the point was in continuing with the work permit application if my Greek citizenship's coming through? I struggled with the Greek, finally switched to English, and gave my opinion that I'd better keep trying with both tracks until one of them has reached a conclusion.
So tomorrow morning, with luck, the last step in my nearly two-year tangle with the Greek bureaucracy.
(After a detour to Athens International Airport to recover a package sent to me. Somewhere in my travels, one of my two business suits went missing, so I had to get a replacement. It was ordered and delivered to New York, and my folks sent it to me in Athens; unfortunately, it's stuck in Customs, waiting for me to pay a duty fee and a storage fee and a paperwork fee that, collectively, come close to fifty percent of the price of the suit on its own. Seriously. Whiskey tango foxtrot?)