Maybe next time, Andorra
Goodbye, old passport. These last ten years have flown by. In that time you have given me unfettered and mostly hassle-free entry to Iceland, Scotland, the United States, Canada, Korea, Japan, Argentina, Uruguay, Italy, Slovenia, Austria, the Czech Republic, England, the Republic of San Marino, Croatia, France, Spain, Malta, Germany, Poland, Greece, and Turkey. (You also allowed me to seriously consider getting married in Denmark, but that’s neither here nor there.) You were issued back in the day when visas were taken seriously, though I’ve regretted every stamp I didn’t get (I’m looking at you, San Marino!) and it was with a certain amount of satisfaction that I went to the embassy in Ljubljana a few years ago to have extra pages added when you were approaching maximum stamp capacity — to fill up a passport is a fine thing. It was with less joy that I applied last month for your replacement, which I doubt will ever match you for global reach, degree of stampfullitude, or patina. Goodbye, old passport.
Adam’s tiny passport can be seen here.
Funny, on those photos you look a little like my father, who, incidentally, is from near Nova Gorica.
I was wondering – what kind of citizenship does Adam have? Slovenian, Polish (?), American or all three?
Comment by Lilit — Friday 17 November 06 @ 12.59 MST+2.00
Did you have to remit your old one? My husband had a big bonfire for his Yugoslavian passport. I cried because it was so full of the patina and stampage, but it is with great pride that he now carries the Croatian version. The U.S. passport is still the more hassle-free of the two.
Comment by Gwynne — Saturday 18 November 06 @ 01.20 MST+2.00
Whose hair is teal? Yours. Don’t think that a little photoshop will hide the truth.
Comment by Jane — Saturday 18 November 06 @ 01.34 MST+2.00
I did not have to remit. When you’re outside the U.S. (and for all I know when you’re in) they allow you to keep your old passport while they’re beavering away on your new one. Then when the new one is ready you bring it to the embassy and they cancel it before handing over the replacement.
Adam has a U.S. passport of his very own, and is written into his mother’s Polish one as well. We haven’t gotten around to getting him his own Polish one yet, but he does have dual citizenship. Unfortunately not triple. Slovenia doesn’t go around handing out citizenships willy-nilly just for silly little things like being born here.
Comment by sgazzetti — Monday 20 November 06 @ 06.10 MST+2.00
I didn’t realize you could do write-ins on the passport. Was that for while she carried him around in utero? Those crazy Slovenians. Would be cool to have triple citizenship by the time he turns three.
Comment by Gwynne — Monday 20 November 06 @ 18.59 MST+2.00