Here's an interesting story of how one man's attempt to get a french passport. 07:45 - Patrick Emanuel arrives at the plant in Fegersheim, and
realizes
that he left some important papers at home.
08:15 - Patrick realizes that he left some important papers at home and
needs to retrieve them . . . Patrick leaves plant
09:00 - Patrick arrives at house, picks up documents, and leaves for
the
Alsace Prefecture in Strasbourg
09:50 - Patrick arrives at Alsace Prefecture, picks up number #31.
10:00 - Patrick receives call from Mark Lauwick, who tells him that he
really needs to go to another Prefecture closer to his house, Patrick
leaves for plant
10:30 - Patrick arrives at plant in order to pick up additional
documents
(besides it was on the way)
11:15 - Patrick arrives at his local City Hall, who tells him that it
will
take 10 days to get the paperwork he needs in order to go to the other
Prefecture. When he complains they say, "OK, come back at 2"
14:00 - Patrick returns to local City Hall (no doubt after a nice
relaxing
lunch at home) and picks up documents
14:10 - Patrick arrives at Sous Prefecture, who tell him to wait 3 days
before he can pick up his passport.
Total distance travelled so far - 250 kilometers.
Patrick finally did return to get his passport, and it took 30 minutes
of
searching before she found his passport that had been sitting on top of
her
desk all along.
Stay tuned because this was just for his french passport. He now needs
to
travel to Paris on February 16th to get his US visa (new requirement
for
all tourists and business trips to the US). And no pressure, but this
is
two weeks before they need to be in the US to start testing.
