Trifter

The foreigner went through the ropes having already gotten his citizenship when he was younger. The country told him the papers could be obtained in his land of birth. When he got there, the consulate official said the opposite, that his citizenship paper could only be obtained in the country where he made the application. In the meantime he has made many trips to the local consulate looking for ways to obtain his papers and through that a working visa so that he can have some decent means of working in that country.

It has been some time since he returned from the old country and remembers the oath he took and the paper he signed which would testify to his being registered at the city’s register. There may be some confusion, he thinks, but not months of turmoil indicative of some poorer nation which has no room for educated people. At first he though of visiting the consulate again and asking for that piece of paper that would permit him the right to have a  passport although it looks like the country does not want to know of his intentions. It looked like they were happy when he paid taxes there and never got any word of a return on that.

Today he is still in limbo. Word has cpme back that his birth certificate has been recognized but that is going a step backwards not forwards. he took it for granted they had all this information months earlier. Why didn’t the official make an effort years ago regarding obtianing a passport instead of even registering him in the consulate as a citizen when he returned. it would have saved him the loss of one item, his loss of residency that the country seems to be hinged on. Without a present residency it is as if he has no basis to ask for his rights, although he went through a citisenship ceremony and hred a lawyer who helped him accomplish that.