Thread: Births, Deaths, and Marriages

RANT

so we've got a holiday booked to Singapore - was a spur of the moment thing - we weren't expecting any issues getting passports as we have our birth certificates, driver's licenses, etc which have been used many times in the past to prove we are who we say we are.

So DFAT went through our paperwork/interview, it was all good as far as the office people could tell so they sent it south for processing. My wife just got a call saying NSW BDM wont accept her birth certificate so her application has been knocked back. WTF. She HAD a passport (which has expired) that was gained with that exact same piece of paper!

The fucking overflowing cockbanks at BDM are claiming it's missing some piece of text on the bottom of the doco - just to clarify, this is one THEY supplied, on their embossed/patterned paper. Which means they want $ for a new one.

so now we might miss our holiday - already had a rush job on the passports, and this delay may push us past our departure date. awesome.

I guess the lesson here is to not trust paperwork you've had no issues with in the past, nor cockwit breeding grounds like some govt departments.

/RANT

enquirer about getting an express passport. You pay more but it takes i think 3 business days to process.

yeah we did that because we knew we didn't have much time - mine was processed today after submitting the paperwork yesterday.

That sucks. Fucking dickwads.

when you leaving?

Originally Posted by Aegis

...NSW BDM...

There's you're problem... The f*cking NSW Government/Government organisations couldn't organise a root in a brothel

Originally Posted by stealthninja

The f*cking NSW Government/Government organisations couldn't organise a root in a brothel

They'd outsource it :p
Goodluck with passport. T_T Make sure you file an official complaint regarding the process too.

Yeah, mine and my daughter's passports are sorted - just waiting on that one now - I've sent off a letter blasting BDM over this and i would *not* want to have been one of the 3 plebs at BDM that had to talk to my wife about why they wouldn't confirm... i'm betting she hit them with Teacher Voice.

OMFG - bad enough they've asked my wife to fax an image of her credit card to them, it isn't coming out clearly (duh, they're covered in coloured patterns) so they asked my wife to EMAIL it to them. Jesus H Christ their incompetence knows no bounds.

edit: and then they called to say she needs to write a note authorising them to take their fee out of it! I'm so glad we wasted our breath telling them how urgent this was.

the birth certificate arrived in the mail today. they left off my wife's middle name...