Identity card
May. 23rd, 2008 02:50 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bktheirregularI kept saying I wouldn't believe I'd get the dual-nationality identity card until I had the actual card in my hands.
It's not in my hands.
It's propped up on my keyboard above the F5-F8 keys.
Still processing that it went off without ... a ... hitch ...
...well, not quite accurate to say that it all went off without a hitch. Even discounting every paperwork snarl in the past two years, when they gave me my card, they mangled my last name, cutting out all the silent letters, putting in an A (my name doesn't have an "A" anywhere in it), and dropping in an umlaut. Then transliterating it back to English letter by letter, because their computers won't let them do it any other way. Guess they're not set up for names in foreign languages.
So, relief is mixed with foreboding over the umlaut. Any variation in official documentation can cause problems...
It's not in my hands.
It's propped up on my keyboard above the F5-F8 keys.
Still processing that it went off without ... a ... hitch ...
...well, not quite accurate to say that it all went off without a hitch. Even discounting every paperwork snarl in the past two years, when they gave me my card, they mangled my last name, cutting out all the silent letters, putting in an A (my name doesn't have an "A" anywhere in it), and dropping in an umlaut. Then transliterating it back to English letter by letter, because their computers won't let them do it any other way. Guess they're not set up for names in foreign languages.
So, relief is mixed with foreboding over the umlaut. Any variation in official documentation can cause problems...
