Wednesday, October 27, 2010

Sign away!

So who ever said going overseas was easy? Whoever it was needs to be popped a good time. So far we've had an interesting round about with legal documents and everything else. We've been signing everything, making copies of everything, and filling everything out...Signing our life away in other words.
Here is a list of what we have had to apply for and what we've needed....
**Passports x4: Birth Certificates (Makayla only had a birth card so we had to rush order a birth certificate for her), 6 Applications (3 for passports at the PO and 3 for passport office), 6 passport photos, 2 hours of standing in line at the PO, 2 weeks of waiting
**Visa (Work Visa for Mike and Visas for us): 4 applications, 4 additional info sheets, 8 passport photos, 4 passports already completed, Copies of 4 birth certificates, Copy of our marriage lic, Copy of Michael's Diploma (Mind you he graduated 12 years ago...THANK YOU Mom and Dad for keeping important info and having a copy!), Any training certificates.
**Physical for Michael and Myself: 7 Shots, 7 viles of blood, Xrays, Hearing Test, Eye Test, Breathing Test, Pik Test, EKG, 10 lab test....not fun! Both of us have to have more shots in 6 months.
**Shots for Children: 3 for Makayla and 3 for Anthony
**Extra Passport for Michael (application, 2 passport photos)
**Business Visa for Michael (application, birth certificate, passport)
**Phone calls from 4 different people at 3 different companies)
**Survey of Belongings for the move
We still have to finish completing Work visa stuff, pack stuff we are not taking, clean the house, clean the carpets, replace carpet in my office, and a million other things.

So like I said, whoever said going overseas was easy was full of themselves and needs a good popping.
Off to clean before our trip tomorrow.
~Expat Wife

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I'm a mom of two beautiful children and I'm married to my best friend...we've been married 10 years but we've been together 11.5. We are currently an Expat family living in Mumbai, India.

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